item: #1 of 6 id: 21630 author: Merryweather, F. Somner (Frederick Somner) title: Bibliomania in the Middle Ages date: None words: 87348 flesch: 67 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] keywords: abbey; abbot; ages; albans; archbishop; art; authors; bede; benedict; bible; bibliomaniac; bishop; books; bury; canterbury; care; catalogue; century; chapter; choice; christian; church; collection; copies; copy; dark; days; durham; england; english; fine; fol; god; gold; good; gospels; great; hand; heart; history; holy; honor; i. p.; iii; john; king; knowledge; latin; learning; letters; libraries; library; librorum; life; list; literature; lord; love; man; manuscripts; men; middle; mind; monasteries; monastery; monastic; monkish; monks; mss; names; nature; new; number; order; original; oxford; page; parchment; paris; pen; period; peter; piety; place; prior; reader; reading; richard; rome; sacred; saxon; scribes; scriptures; student; study; subject; things; thomas; thought; time; tom; transcribed; treasures; use; volumes; william; works; writings; year cache: 21630.txt plain text: 21630.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 22136 author: Burton, John Hill title: The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author date: None words: 135040 flesch: 58 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. keywords: --his; aberdeen; account; age; author; away; book; british; burton; case; century; character; church; class; club; collection; collectors; condition; copies; copy; country; course; craighouse; day; days; deal; dear; death; department; doubt; dr burton; edinburgh; english; et seq; fact; family; father; following; footnote; form; forth; french; friend; general; genius; good; great; hand; heart; history; home; hope; house; human; hunter; influence; instance; interest; ireland; irish; john; kind; king; law; letters; libraries; library; life; literature; look; looking; lord; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; number; object; occasion; office; order; ordinary; page; paper; people; period; person; place; point; power; present; press; printed; public; purpose; pursuit; read; reader; reading; roxburghe; saints; scotland; scott; seq; set; shape; sir; society; son; sort; spirit; subject; table; things; thought; time; title; town; value; volumes; way; wife; william; work; world; writer; years cache: 22136.txt plain text: 22136.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 22605 author: Harper, Henry Howard title: Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs date: None words: 13483 flesch: 56 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. keywords: bibliomaniac; bibliophile; book; book clubs; club; copies; day; dibdin; ferdinand; library; members; membership; new; paper; people; present; publications; publishers; room; society; time; work; years cache: 22605.txt plain text: 22605.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 22607 author: Roberts, W. (William) title: The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting date: None words: 112085 flesch: 65 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.' keywords: 143; auction; author; bible; books; bookseller; bookselling; britain; british; business; catalogue; caxton; century; charles; collection; collectors; copies; copy; country; day; days; death; dibdin; duke; earl; edition; edward; end; england; english; example; fact; father; fine; folio; following; french; friend; george; good; guineas; half; hand; having; henry; history; holborn; house; hunter; hunting; illustration; interest; james; john; king; late; letter; libraries; library; life; list; literature; little; london; lord; lots; man; men; museum; new; note; number; original; oxford; page; paul; period; place; possession; present; price; rev; richard; robert; row; roxburghe; sale; samuel; second; shakespeare; shop; sir; son; sotheby; strand; street; thomas; time; tom; total; trade; value; volumes; way; william; works; worth; years cache: 22607.txt plain text: 22607.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 28540 author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall title: Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance date: None words: 304829 flesch: 72 summary: _ _s._ _d._ _ _s._ _d._ keywords: 12mo; 4to; 8vo; a.d; account; anecdotes; ante; antiquary; antiquities; archbishop; articles; askew; attention; auction; author; authority; b.l; baker; bale; beginning; bibliographer; bibliographical; bibliomania; bibliotheca; bibliothéque; binding; bishop; black; body; boke; books; bookseller; britain; british; bure; cabinet; canterbury; cardinal; care; catalogue; catalogue de; cause; caxton; celebrated; century; certain; character; charles; choice; chronicles; church; classics; close; collection; collectors; college; complete; concerning; consequence; consult; copies; copy; country; cum; curiosity; curious; cuts; date; day; days; de la; dear; death; des; description; discourse; disease; ditto; doctor; duke; earl; edition; editor; edward; elizabeth; eminent; england; english; entire; erasmus; esq; est; et de; evening; execution; eyes; fair; fame; family; father; favourite; fear; fine; fire; folio; following; footnote; foreign; form; forth; france; french; friend; general; gentleman; george; gilt; god; gold; good; grand; greek; guineas; half; hand; hath; head; hearne; heart; henry; herbert; history; hope; house; human; iii; illustration; illustrious; impression; index; italian; james; john; judge; judgment; kind; king; knowledge; labours; language; large; late; latin; lay; learning; leaves; left; leland; length; letter; librarian; libraries; library; librorum; life; lisardo; list; literary; literature; livres; london; long; look; lord; lorenzo; love; lysander; majesty; making; man; manner; manuscripts; martin; master; means; memory; men; mention; mind; morhof; morning; morocco; mss; museum; nature; noble; non; notes; notice; number; object; octavo; old; ones; order; original; owner; oxford; page; paper; paris; particular; passion; paul; peignot; perfect; period; person; phil; philemon; pictures; pieces; place; plates; pleasure; plus; poetry; point; poor; pope; portrait; possession; pour; preceding; preface; present; press; prices; prince; printing; prints; productions; proof; public; publication; purchase; pynson; quarto; queen; rare; rarity; rawlinson; reader; reading; remains; reputation; respect; rest; rev; richard; right; robert; roman; room; round; royal; russia; sale; scarce; school; second; sense; set; shakspeare; short; sign; sir; smith; society; specimen; spencer; spirit; state; steevens; street; study; subject; sum; sur; symptom; table; taste; thing; thomas; thought; thy; till; time; title; transcriber; treasures; truth; typographical; uncut; university; value; vellum; vide; view; vol; vols; volumes; want; way; west; white; william; wish; wood; worde; work; world; writers; writing; wynkyn; year; young cache: 28540.txt plain text: 28540.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 36764 author: Browne, Irving title: In the Track of the Bookworm date: None words: 25940 flesch: 70 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. keywords: art; bibliomaniac; binding; book; bookseller; care; case; collecting; collectors; copy; country; day; edition; good; home; house; illustrator; library; life; love; man; men; new; paper; pictures; plate; portrait; print; regard; room; sense; shakespeare; small; subject; time; volumes; wife; woman; work; worm; years cache: 36764.txt plain text: 36764.txt