item: #1 of 19
          id: 13852
      author: Bennett, Arnold
       title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature
        date: None
       words: 25007
      flesch: 72
     summary: If a classic is a classic because it gives _pleasure_ to succeeding generations of the people who are most keenly interested in literature, and if Lamb frequently strikes you as dull, then evidently there is something wrong. The right things are the right things solely because the passionate few _like_ reading them.
    keywords: author; beauty; book; chapter; charles; classics; edition; english; everyman; john; lamb; library; life; literature; man; matter; mind; pleasure; poems; poetry; prose; read; reading; sir; style; taste; thomas; universal; verse; vols; wordsworth; works; world
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        item: #2 of 19
          id: 18938
      author: Elton, Charles Isaac
       title: The Great Book-Collectors
        date: None
       words: 58463
      flesch: 71
     summary: We shall therefore avoid as much as possible the description of particular books, and shall endeavour to deal with the book-collector or book-hunter, as distinguished from the owner of good books, from librarians and specialists, from the merchant or broker of books and the book-glutton who wants all that he sees. Politian the poet, and Mirandula, the Phoenix of his age, were the messengers whom the great Lorenzo sent out to gather the spoil; and he only prayed, he said, that they might find such a store of good books that he would be obliged to pawn his furniture to pay for them.
    keywords: age; archbishop; bishop; books; cardinal; century; chapter; charles; collection; collectors; copy; day; death; duke; earl; england; english; family; fine; france; french; friend; gold; good; greek; grolier; history; home; house; italy; john; king; learning; libraries; library; life; literature; lord; louis; man; manuscripts; men; mss; number; oxford; papers; paris; place; public; queen; richard; rome; room; royal; sale; set; sir; thomas; thou; time; university; volumes; way; work; world; years
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        item: #3 of 19
          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
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        item: #4 of 19
          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
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        item: #5 of 19
          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
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        item: #6 of 19
          id: 22716
      author: Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray)
       title: The Book-Hunter at Home
        date: None
       words: 96385
      flesch: 73
     summary: Of such books Hazlitt remarks that he 'has met in the course of a lengthened career with treasures which would make a small library, and has beheld no duplicates.' Indeed, it is not so much a matter of surprise that such books should have disappeared, as that they should have remained hidden for so long.
    keywords: account; appearance; author; bibliographical; bibliography; bibliophile; binding; boards; books; bookseller; british; brown; cambridge; case; catalogue; caxton; century; century books; chivalry; class; classics; collecting; collector; copies; copy; country; course; day; des; early; edition; end; england; english; fact; find; fine; folio; french; friend; good; half; hand; history; house; hunter; interest; john; king; knowledge; leaves; library; life; list; literature; little; london; long; man; matter; men; mind; museum; new; number; octavo; octavo volumes; original; page; paper; paris; place; point; press; price; printed; printers; quarto; read; reading; romances; room; sale; shelves; sidenote; sir; society; study; subject; table; things; thomas; thought; time; title; turn; use; value; volumes; way; works; world; years; young; | |
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        item: #7 of 19
          id: 28174
      author: Humphreys, Arthur Lee
       title: The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books
        date: None
       words: 34894
      flesch: 69
     summary: All such things go to spoil good books. In a charming little volume, written by an American bibliophile, I read the following passage, confirming in part the foregoing:-- 'Good editions of good books, though they may often be expensive, cannot be too highly commended.
    keywords: binding; bookcases; books; catalogue; century; collection; copies; copy; country; dictionary; edition; feet; good; hand; history; house; knowledge; learning; leather; librarian; libraries; library; light; man; men; paper; pepys; place; reading; reference; reference books; room; shelf; shelves; subject; things; time; volumes; way; work
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        item: #8 of 19
          id: 28187
      author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
       title: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts
        date: None
       words: 23529
      flesch: 72
     summary: All these, and some other remarkable illuminated books that could be named (I ought not to omit a Peterborough Psalter at Brussels), are not library books, but rather properties of great ecclesiastics or nobles. Not to Rochester, at any rate, though Rochester did get many books written at Christchurch.
    keywords: abbey; books; british; cambridge; canterbury; catalogue; century; collection; college; copies; copy; england; english; france; good; greek; history; italy; john; latin; leaf; learning; leaves; libraries; library; mss; museum; net; number; oxford; paris; time; years
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        item: #9 of 19
          id: 28225
      author: Hazlitt, William Carew
       title: The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
        date: None
       words: 90130
      flesch: 57
     summary: The founders and earlier curators of the institution appear to have regarded such _nugæ_ as beneath the dignity of a national library; but in fact the information which they, and possibly they alone, convey, is frequently of historical, biographical, or topographical relevance. In _Prefaces, Dedications, Epistles_, 1874, the writer drew attention to this point, and furnished a considerable series of such _prolegomena_ in illustration of the fact.
    keywords: account; american; auction; authors; bibliographical; binding; books; british; case; catalogue; caxton; century; character; class; collection; collectors; copies; copy; country; course; day; edition; england; english; examples; extent; fact; find; form; french; general; hand; heber; henry; huth; interest; items; john; late; libraries; library; like; literature; london; lord; man; market; matter; men; morocco; mss; museum; names; new; paper; period; place; point; present; press; prices; productions; property; public; publications; reference; sale; school; second; series; shakespeare; sir; special; state; study; subject; taste; thomas; time; tracts; value; vellum; view; volume; way; works; worth; writer; years
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        item: #10 of 19
          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
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        item: #11 of 19
          id: 30419
      author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
       title: How to Form a Library, 2nd ed
        date: None
       words: 43366
      flesch: 71
     summary: It contains classified lists of library books, but these are not now of much value, except for the notes which accompany the titles, and make this work eminently readable. When we come to consider libraries of printed books in place of manuscripts, we naturally find a greater variety of subjects collected by the famous men who have formed collections.
    keywords: 4to; 8vo; account; authors; bibliographies; bibliography; bibliotheca; books; british; catalogue; chapter; charles; children; club; collection; complete; des; dictionary; edition; england; english; following; form; general; good; henry; historical; history; index; james; john; language; late; librarian; libraries; library; life; list; literature; london; man; men; new; notes; number; oxford; paris; place; present; printing; public; publication; reading; reference; rev; royal; second; series; sir; society; special; subject; thomas; time; united; use; value; vols; volumes; william; works; years
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        item: #12 of 19
          id: 3426
      author: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
       title: On Books and the Housing of Them
        date: None
       words: 6484
      flesch: 66
     summary: The time may be approaching when we shall be able to estimate the quantity of book knowledge stored in the repositories of those empires which we call prehistoric. Nay, even the different members of the book-body do not sing, but clash, when bindings of a profuse costliness are imposed, as too often happens in the case of Bibles and books of devotion, upon letter-press which is respectable journeyman's work and nothing more.
    keywords: bookcases; books; feet; footnote; libraries; library; room; sizes; space; time; volumes
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        item: #13 of 19
          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
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        item: #14 of 19
          id: 38345
      author: Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert)
       title: Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs
        date: None
       words: 43115
      flesch: 72
     summary: The famous English printer Caxton (_c._ Nicoll, Thomas P. Walker & Co. Wilson, J. Wyllie & Son, D., _c._ 1830.
    keywords: 4to; 8vo; aldus; auction; bindings; books; business; case; chapter; co.; collector; copies; copy; course; date; day; editions; elzevir; english; extra; folio; good; illustration; james; john; leaves; letter; library; london; marks; morocco; new; number; oxford; page; paper; place; press; printer; printing; son; sons; street; time; title; value; volumes; w.c; water; way; william; works; worth; years
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        item: #15 of 19
          id: 41393
      author: Hazlitt, William Carew
       title: The Confessions of a Collector
        date: None
       words: 77633
      flesch: 62
     summary: Where one is able to meet with early _billon_ money, which has miraculously escaped all deteriorating agencies, it is a real pleasure to contemplate the mixture of bloom and _patina_, which time has lent to a piece. Since this is merely a sort of introductory feature in my little undertaking, and I was desirous of affording some samples of one of my bibliographical primers, I do not deal with technical detail, but limit myself to literary _adversaria_, and to Heber's own personal remarks about his possessions, as distinguished from those of the compilers of the catalogue.
    keywords: account; bibliographical; books; british; catalogue; chapter; circumstances; coins; collection; condition; copies; copy; course; day; ellis; english; family; father; fine; george; gold; good; greek; hands; heber; henry; history; home; house; interest; john; library; like; london; lot; man; money; mr huth; mr quaritch; museum; new; original; owner; piece; place; present; price; quaritch; richard; roman; sale; second; series; shop; silver; sir; son; sotheby; state; street; thomas; thought; time; unique; value; volume; way; work; worth; years
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        item: #16 of 19
          id: 443
      author: Field, Eugene
       title: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
        date: None
       words: 37583
      flesch: 62
     summary: My mania exhibited itself first in an affectation for old books; it mattered not what the book itself was--so long as it bore an ancient date upon its title-page or in its colophon I pined to possess it. MARCUS VARRO Marcus Varro went up and down The places where old books were sold; He ransacked all the shops in town For pictures new and pictures old.
    keywords: age; angling; bed; bibliomania; books; bookseller; captivity; care; copy; day; days; eyes; fairy; fancy; find; friend; hand; heart; humanity; judge; library; life; literature; love; man; men; methuen; mind; miss; napoleon; new; o'rell; passion; people; poet; practice; present; reading; song; soul; susan; tell; thee; things; time; villon; volumes; way; work; years
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        item: #17 of 19
          id: 44360
      author: Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward)
       title: The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections
        date: None
       words: 96806
      flesch: 73
     summary: Old books are best, says Beverly Chew, beloved of all collectors; and I recall Lowell's remark: There is a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. I would have a law for the protection of old books, and our legislators in Washington might do much worse than consider this suggestion.
    keywords: author; bar; book; bookseller; boswell; charles; city; collection; collectors; copies; copy; day; days; death; dickens; dodd; dollars; edition; england; english; father; find; friend; george; godwin; good; hand; house; husband; illustration; inscription; interest; james; johnson; lady; lamb; letter; library; life; london; lord; love; man; mary; men; mind; miss; money; mrs; new; original; page; people; piozzi; place; pounds; presentation; price; queen; read; reading; sale; sir; story; street; temple; thought; thrale; time; title; trollope; volume; way; wife; wilde; william; woman; work; world; writing; years
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        item: #18 of 19
          id: 44810
      author: Pym, Horace N.
       title: Chats in the Book-Room
        date: None
       words: 23855
      flesch: 73
     summary: The best holiday for an over-worked man, who has little time to spare, and who has not given hostages to fortune, is to sail across the herring-pond on a Cunarder or White Star hotel, and so get free from newspapers, letters, visitors, dinner-parties, and all the daily irritations of modern life. Sir William Agnew rubs shoulders with Lord Rosebery, and Sir T. C. Robinson whispers his doubts of a picture to a Trustee of the National Collection; old Mr. Vokins extols, if you care to listen, the old English water-colourists, to many of whom he was a good friend, and Mr. George Redford makes some notes of the best pictures for the Press; but Mr. Woods' quiet incisive voice demands silence as Lot 1 is offered with little prefix, and soon finds a buyer at a moderate price.
    keywords: book; cardinal; charles; chat; day; days; dear; death; english; following; friend; general; great; guineas; home; hour; house; interest; john; late; letter; life; lord; mother; mrs; night; paris; picture; portrait; present; room; round; sir; story; street; time; way; work; years
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        item: #19 of 19
          id: 626
      author: Bury, Richard de
       title: The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
        date: None
       words: 24979
      flesch: 56
     summary: It is traditionally reported that Richard's books were sent, in his lifetime or after his death, to the house of the Durham Benedictines at Oxford, and there remained until the dissolution of the College by Henry VIII., when they were dispersed, some going into Duke Humphrey's (the University) library, others to Balliol College, and the remainder passing into the hands of Dr. George Owen, who purchased the site of the dissolved College.[3] [3] Mr. J. W. Clark puts the matter as follows:--Durham College, maintained by the Benedictines of Durham, was supplied with books from the mother-house, lists of which have been preserved; and subsequently a library was built there to contain the collection bequeathed in 1345 by Richard de Bury (The Care of Books, p. 142). Among these were such men as Thomas Bradwardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and author of the De Causa Dei; Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, and famous for his hostility to the mendicant orders; Walter Burley, who dedicated to him a translation of the Politics of Aristotle made at his suggestion; John Mauduit, the astronomer; Robert Holkot, author of many books; Richard de Kilvington; Richard Benworth, afterwards Bishop of London; and Walter Seagrave, who became Dean of Chichester.
    keywords: aristotle; books; bury; chapter; church; clergy; day; death; god; holy; intellect; king; learning; life; light; love; man; means; men; nature; philosophy; richard; riches; scholars; science; study; things; time; truth; wisdom; world; writing
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