The Book Collector And Other Papers Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Collector: Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Whate'er his fortunes may have been, Must sigh to think how oft he's found Life's warmest welcome at an Inn. Shenstone. The old, legitimate, delightful idea of an Inn is becoming obsolete; like so many other traditional blessings, it has been sacrificed to the genius of locomotion. The rapidity with which distance is consumed obviates the need that so long existed of by-way retreats and halting-places. A hearty meal or a few hours' sleep, caught between the arrival of the trains, is all the railway traveller requires; and the modern habit of moving in caravans has infinitely lessened the romantic probabilities and comfortable realities of a journey: the rural alehouse and picturesque hostel now exist chiefly in the domain of memory; crowds, haste, and ostentation triumph here over privacy and rational enjoyment, as in nearly all the arrangements of modern society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from How to Collect Books The modern collector - Necessity for rules - The Roxburghe Library - Fashion in book-collecting The question of cost - Scarcity Uncut books Original bindings and variations - Binding parts or numbers - Large and small paper copies Limited editions - Editions de Luxe - Pedigrees of books Buying to sell again - Imperfect copies and Odd volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from English Book Collectors My friend, Mr. Walter Stanley Graves, has in an appendix to this volume compiled a list of the principal sales of libraries in this country from an early period to the present time, which will be found to supply useful information about many of those collectors who are not otherwise mentioned in the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Literary Collector, Vol. 3: October, 1901-March, 1902 A hunt in such a forest never wearies. The forest referred to being. Of course, the reverend gentleman's volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Literary Collector, Vol. 1: A Monthly Magazine of Book-Lore and Bibliography; July 1905-December 1905 May 3, 4 and 5, 1898. During my residence in Augusta we were near neighbors, members of the same lodge and attended the same church. We were also members of the Kennebec Historical Society, and at one of the meetings of that society Mr. Blanchard read a paper on Incunabula - or cradle books, as they are called - the earliest printed books after the invention of printing from movable type. This paper was a revelation to me from its knowl edge of bibliography and early printing. Yet during our long acquaintance I did not know that he was a collector of books. I never knew of but one man who ever saw his library, and he was an old army comrade who hardly knew one book from another. He had called to see Mr. Blanchard while he was con fined to his house by illness and he had invited him into his library room. He told me that he never saw so many books in one house in his life and that they were piled to the ceiling. This library was a cele brated one for first editions of American authors, for its wealth of Hawthornes, Whittiers, Lowells, Long fellows, and the first English editions of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Kipling, Stevenson; with the Grolier Club and Kelmscott Press books, privately printed and rare editions, with a fine collection of books on bibliography, art, porcelains, pottery, books on vellum and rare local histories. The cata logue embraced lots representing about volumes. In it were 62 Hawthornes, including Fanshawe, the record price of which is $637, and 19 first editions; 60 Longfellows, including 29 first editions; 19 Lowells, including four first editions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Autograph Hunter, and Other Papers The title of this small volume is rather mis leading. For it contains less about autographs than it does about Van Buren. But as these divarications are privately printed, nobody can very well complain. Only a few personal friends will ever read the papers, and they will probably utter no complaint. When the book is on the shelf. Where it will undoubt edly repose during most of its existence. The title it bears will look as well as any other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.