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Page 175
... incunabula and the higher class . English literature of the seventeenth century , and are to be found in the libraries of wealthy collectors who are also learned men . They are always well bound and in good condition , though sometimes ...
... incunabula and the higher class . English literature of the seventeenth century , and are to be found in the libraries of wealthy collectors who are also learned men . They are always well bound and in good condition , though sometimes ...
Page 218
... incunabula we are not concerned here . It is easily begun , this making of a biblio- graphy , and it is a delightful hobby , though necessarily it takes up a good deal of time . The plan which we adopted is as follows , and it has been ...
... incunabula we are not concerned here . It is easily begun , this making of a biblio- graphy , and it is a delightful hobby , though necessarily it takes up a good deal of time . The plan which we adopted is as follows , and it has been ...
Page 239
... . The Intro- duction to Part I. gives a valuable résumé of the study of scientific bibliography from Panzer in 1793 . Mr. Gordon Duff's great work on the 6 English incunabula , Fifteenth Century Books , ' was Books of the Collector 239.
... . The Intro- duction to Part I. gives a valuable résumé of the study of scientific bibliography from Panzer in 1793 . Mr. Gordon Duff's great work on the 6 English incunabula , Fifteenth Century Books , ' was Books of the Collector 239.
Page 240
... incunabula of various European towns and districts , such as Augsburg , Bavaria , Belgium , Bohemia , Ferrara , Mainz , Lyons , Mantua , Nürn- berg , Rome , Rouen , Toulouse , to mention only a few . For the incunabula printed with ...
... incunabula of various European towns and districts , such as Augsburg , Bavaria , Belgium , Bohemia , Ferrara , Mainz , Lyons , Mantua , Nürn- berg , Rome , Rouen , Toulouse , to mention only a few . For the incunabula printed with ...
Page 241
... Incunabula is now applied to all books printed before the year 1500. It is a vast study in itself , this biblio- graphy of fifteenth - century books ; and thanks to the labours of a small group of men who have devoted their lives to the ...
... Incunabula is now applied to all books printed before the year 1500. It is a vast study in itself , this biblio- graphy of fifteenth - century books ; and thanks to the labours of a small group of men who have devoted their lives to the ...
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Page 183 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 133 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 127 - ... al noble lordes and ladyes wyth al other estates, of what estate or degree they been of, that shal see and rede in this sayd book and werke, that they take the good and honest actes in their remembraunce, and to folowe the same...
Page 365 - Nay, let me have one book more, — and then I have done, — wherein I might see all plants, herbs, and trees, that grow upon the earth.
Page 365 - Be she as chaste as was Penelope, As wise as Saba, or as beautiful As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Page 126 - And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Page 365 - Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me.
Page 224 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
Page 365 - Thanks, Mephistophilis: yet fain would I have a book wherein I might behold all spells and incantations, that I might raise up spirits when I please.
Page 52 - I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be...