# bib

id: 22605
author: Harper, Henry Howard
title: Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
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sentence: 456
flesch: 56
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summary:
  There appears to be no defense for book clubs against these bogus impersonations. They will argue that there is no use spending money for books, because they reside within easy reach of a public library where such books as they desire are readily obtainable, or perhaps suggest that I have free access to my friend Smith's library; he scarcely ever uses it; without reflecting that Smith would probably use it more, if his friends used it less.


id: 36764
author: Browne, Irving
title: In the Track of the Bookworm
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flesch: 70
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summary:
  I am told that there are a few women now-a-days who collect books, and only a few weeks ago a lady read, before a woman's club in Chicago, a paper on the Collection and Adornment of Books, for which occasion a fair member of the club solicited me to write her something appropriate to read, which of course I was glad to do. Grant that the auctioneer is a person of sensibility and acquainted with good books, then his calling must give him many a pang as he observes the ignorance and carelessness of his audience.


id: 21630
author: Merryweather, F. Somner (Frederick Somner)
title: Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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words: 87348
sentence: 4112
flesch: 67
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summary:
  But what is more to our purpose, his biographer tells us that he was remarkably skilful in writing and illuminating, and transcribed many books, adorning them with beautiful paintings, whilst in this little cell.[96] Peter of Blois records, in his life of Wilfrid, that this man of God gave the monastery a copy of the gospels, a library, and many books of the Old and New Testament, with certain tablets made with marvellous ingenuity, and ornamented with gold and precious stones.[255]


id: 22607
author: Roberts, W. (William)
title: The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting
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sentence: 4073
flesch: 65
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summary:
  It was formed, not only in the short space of twelve years, but at a time when many books, now of almost priceless value, and scarcely to be had at any price, were comparatively common, and certainly not costly. My Lord shew'd me his library, now again improv'd by many books bought at the sale of Sir Charles Scarborough, an eminent physician, which was the very best collection, especially of mathematical books, that was I believe in Europe, once design'd for the King's library at St. James's, but the Queen dying, who was the greate patroness of the designe, it was let fall, and the books were miserably dissipated.'


id: 22136
author: Burton, John Hill
title: The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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sentence: 4516
flesch: 58
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summary:
  [Footnote 49: In this catalogue of _books which are no books--biblia a biblia_--I reckon court calendars, directories, pocket-books, draught-boards bound and lettered on the back, scientific treatises, almanacs, statutes at large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and generally all those volumes which 'no gentleman's library should be without;' the histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew) and Paley's Moral Philosophy. There are many other books where records of remarkable crimes are mixed up with much rubbish, as, The Terrific Register, God's Revenge against Murder, a little French book called Histoire Générale des Larrons (1623), and if the inquirer's taste turn towards maritime crimes, The History of the Bucaniers, by Esquemeling.


# ent

id: 21630
sid: 632
eid: 2
type: ORG
entity:
  pouvoir et la direction de l'université de paris sur les ecrivains de livres et les imprimeurs qui leur ont


id: 28540
sid: 1598
eid: 8
type: PERSON
entity:
  et comme après cela c'est presque toujours le goût des personnes en état de récompenser qui dirige le


id: 28540
sid: 2495
eid: 6
type: ORG
entity:
  calligraphiques de manuscrits des differens siécles, et des notices typographiques de livres du quinziéme siécle_


id: 28540
sid: 10357
eid: 5
type: ORG
entity:
  copiés d'après les plus beaux manuscrits qui se trouvoient dans la bibliothéque de m. le duc de la valliere


id: 28540
sid: 10370
eid: 5
type: ORG
entity:
  d'une conservation parfaite, & sur du vélin egalement blanc et uni; enfin c'est un assemblage de miniatures précieuses et dignes d'orner le plus beau


id: 28540
sid: 10386
eid: 1
type: PERSON
entity:
  et qui possede autant de perfection que pouvoient lui donner les soins et les connoissances des plus grands


