item: #1 of 21 id: 11251 author: None title: Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R. Brimley Johnson date: None words: 191387 flesch: 59 summary: The devil has the ministers and professors of Scotland, now in a sive, and O as he sifts, and O as he riddles, and O as he rattles, and O the chaff he gets; And I fear there be more chaff nor there be good corn, and that will be found among us or all be done: but the _soul-confirmed_ man leaves ever the devil at two more, and he has ay the matter gadged, and leaves ay the devil in the lee side,--Sirs O work in the day of the cross. Great men, on whom she had gazed at a distance with humble reverence, addressed her with admiration, tempered by the tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. keywords: account; author; beauty; book; case; character; church; class; coleridge; common; composition; country; course; criticism; darwin; day; days; death; degree; doubt; edinburgh; effect; england; english; eyes; fact; fair; feeling; fine; force; form; friend; general; genius; god; good; half; hand; having; heart; history; human; hunt; idea; imagination; interest; jane; johnson; judgment; keats; kind; knowledge; lady; language; law; leigh; life; light; literature; little; london; lord; love; macaulay; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; miss; moral; mrs; nature; new; notice; novel; object; opinion; order; original; pages; people; person; place; poem; poetical; poetry; poets; point; poor; pope; power; present; principles; public; question; readers; reason; religion; review; school; second; self; sense; set; shakespeare; sir; society; sort; southey; species; spirit; state; style; subject; taste; tennyson; theory; thing; thought; time; truth; use; volume; way; woman; words; wordsworth; work; world; writer; years cache: 11251.txt plain text: 11251.txt item: #2 of 21 id: 1302 author: Blades, William title: The Enemies of Books date: None words: 24124 flesch: 69 summary: They eat the wooden boards of old books, and so pass into the paper where they make long holes quite round, except when they work in a slanting direction, when the holes appear to be oblong. Thanks to the general interest taken in old books now-a-days, the worm has hard times of it, and but slight chance of that quiet neglect which is necessary to his, existence. keywords: binder; binding; books; caxton; century; chapter; collection; damp; day; destruction; dust; end; enemies; enemy; fire; folio; following; gas; good; holes; leaves; letter; libraries; library; london; mss; museum; paper; printing; shelves; time; value; volumes; water; work; worm; years cache: 1302.txt plain text: 1302.txt item: #3 of 21 id: 14240 author: Wilde, Oscar title: Reviews date: None words: 166004 flesch: 69 summary: Imitators of Mr. Browning are, unfortunately, common enough, but imitators of Mr. and Mrs. Browning combined are so very rare that we have read Mr. Francis Prevost's Fires of Green Wood with great interest. I have to thank Mr. William Rossetti for kindly allowing me to reproduce Dante Gabriel Rossetti's drawing of the authoress of Goblin Market; and thanks are also due to Mr. Lafayette, of Dublin, for the use of his photograph of H.R.H. the Princess of Wales in her Academic Robes as Doctor of Music, which served as our frontispiece last month, and to Messrs. Hills and Saunders, of Oxford, and Mr. Lord and Mr. Blanchard, of Cambridge, for a similar courtesy in the case of the article on Greek Plays at the Universities. keywords: account; age; art; artist; author; beauty; blue; book; century; character; charming; children; co.; colour; country; course; culture; day; days; deal; death; description; doubt; dramatic; dress; education; effect; england; english; excellent; expression; face; fact; fair; father; feeling; fiction; find; fine; form; french; gazette; george; girl; god; gold; good; grace; great; greek; half; hand; heart; history; hope; house; idea; influence; instance; interest; irish; john; keats; kind; lady; language; left; letters; life; lines; literature; lord; love; making; mall; man; manner; master; means; method; mind; miss; modern; morris; mother; mrs; music; nature; new; night; noble; novel; order; pall; passion; people; picture; place; play; pleasure; poems; poetry; point; poor; power; present; prose; queen; read; reading; real; romance; rossetti; rule; saw; scene; school; sea; sense; series; shakespeare; sharp; sir; society; song; sort; soul; spirit; state; stories; story; strange; study; style; subject; things; thought; time; use; value; verse; view; volume; walter; want; way; white; william; women; words; wordsworth; work; world; writer; years; young cache: 14240.txt plain text: 14240.txt item: #4 of 21 id: 22351 author: None title: Publisher's Advertising (1872) date: None words: 13438 flesch: 84 summary: _ 12mo, Cloth, $1 50. _ _ 12mo, Cloth, $1 50. keywords: 12mo; 8vo; author; book; brothers; bulwer; cents; charles; cloth; family; henry; illustrated; illustrations; james; jefferson; john; lady; life; man; miss; mrs; new; paper; tales; trollope; volume cache: 22351.txt plain text: 22351.txt item: #5 of 21 id: 22606 author: Koopman, Harry Lyman title: The Booklover and His Books date: None words: 56194 flesch: 65 summary: As regards book papers, we are to-day in a more fortunate position than we were even a few years ago; for we now can obtain, and at no excessive cost, papers as durable as those employed by the earliest printers. Shakespeare forebodes this yellowing of his pages; but what was then thought of as a misfortune has since been accepted as an element of beauty, and now book papers are regularly made antique as well as white. keywords: alphabet; art; author; beauty; book; book design; book form; book size; case; century; chinese; day; edition; english; eye; form; good; instance; knowledge; legibility; letters; library; life; lines; literature; man; material; men; new; page; paper; point; present; printer; printing; public; reader; reading; shakespeare; size; spelling; time; type; typography; use; volumes; words; work; world; writing; years cache: 22606.txt plain text: 22606.txt item: #6 of 21 id: 22608 author: Spofford, Ainsworth Rand title: A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries date: None words: 158920 flesch: 60 summary: Vegetable parchment is used to bind many booklets which it is desired to dress in an elegant or dainty style, but is highly unsuitable for library books. It is not enough to dust the tops of the books periodically; a more full and radical remedy is required, to render library books presentable. keywords: aid; alphabet; american; american library; art; astor library; authors; bibliography; binding; books; british; case; catalogue; century; city; classification; collection; congress; copies; copyright; cost; country; course; day; early; editions; english; fact; fine; form; free; free library; french; general; good; half; hand; history; index; information; interest; knowledge; law; learning; leather; leaves; letters; librarian; libraries; library; library association; library books; library buildings; library service; library work; life; list; literature; london; man; means; memory; men; method; mind; museum library; names; need; new; number; open; order; page; pamphlets; paper; people; periodicals; persons; place; press; prices; public library; publications; readers; reading; reference; reference books; room; rule; science; selection; shelves; state library; states; subject; system; time; titles; united; university library; use; value; volumes; want; way; words; work; world; writers; years; york cache: 22608.txt plain text: 22608.txt item: #7 of 21 id: 23754 author: None title: The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing date: None words: 89393 flesch: 64 summary: The last is usually only used for stock in very low grades of paper, such as newspaper and wrapping paper; it is rarely used for book paper. Many persons think that this ground wood, which is merely spruce ground very fine into pulp, is used in book papers; but if it were, the paper would not last long, and would almost immediately discolor on exposure to light and air. keywords: author; bed; book; bookseller; business; cloth; color; copies; copy; copyright; cover; cut; cylinder; cylinder press; day; end; fact; form; good; half; hand; having; house; impression; ink; line; machine; making; man; matter; new; number; order; pages; paper; people; plate; point; press; presses; printer; printing; process; proof; public; publisher; publishing; read; reader; roller; sale; second; set; sheet; size; stone; surface; time; type; use; way; work; years; york cache: 23754.txt plain text: 23754.txt item: #8 of 21 id: 26672 author: Cockerell, Douglas title: Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians date: None words: 53682 flesch: 77 summary: | PRESSING.| | BACK. keywords: binding; boards; book; cut; edge; end; fig; glue; gold; hand; head; illustration; joint; knife; leather; leaves; left; lines; paper; paste; piece; plates; press; sections; sewing; sheets; time; tools; use; vellum; water; way; | | cache: 26672.txt plain text: 26672.txt item: #9 of 21 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 cache: 28187.txt plain text: 28187.txt item: #10 of 21 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: #11 of 21 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 cache: 30419.txt plain text: 30419.txt item: #12 of 21 id: 30803 author: Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William) title: Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 date: None words: 17632 flesch: 66 summary: Circulated at first only in single leaves, at a later period the leaves were folded and combined into quires as in other books and we have the fully developed block book as it is called, each leaf being printed from a single plate. This and other block books continued to be reprinted in type after the invention of typography. keywords: block; books; century; co.; glossary; illustrated; information; libraries; manuscripts; material; paper; papyrus; printing; questions; review; review questions; roll; time; use; vellum; words; work; writing cache: 30803.txt plain text: 30803.txt item: #13 of 21 id: 32074 author: Buck, Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett) title: Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles date: None words: 21483 flesch: 67 summary: Such books may be properly entrusted to a good binder for rebinding in substantial leather. It is sometimes preferable, however, merely to reback such books, not only in order to preserve the old leather sides, which are generally in much better condition than the back and often possessed of a very attractive patina, but also to save the wear and slight trimming to which the book would necessarily be subject in rebinding. keywords: binding; boards; book; cut; edges; gold; ink; leather; means; new; page; paper; paste; place; spot; translation; use; value; volumes; water cache: 32074.txt plain text: 32074.txt item: #14 of 21 id: 33413 author: Rawlings, Gertrude Burford title: The Story of Books date: None words: 39739 flesch: 65 summary: It is not, however, the purpose of these pages to deal at length with the ancient history of the _manuscript_ book, but, after briefly noticing the chief links which connect the volumes of to-day with primeval records, to present to the reader a few of the many points of interest offered by the modern history of the _printed_ book. As early as 1479 Conrad de Homborch, a Cologne printer, had issued a Bible accompanied by canons, etc., which was allowed and approved by the University of Cologne, and in 1486 the Archbishop of Mentz issued a mandate forbidding the translation into the vulgar tongue of Greek, Latin, and other books, without the previous approbation of the University. keywords: abbey; art; bible; bindings; block; books; caxton; century; chapter; city; copies; cover; date; day; england; english; france; great; greek; gutenberg; hand; irish; italy; john; large; latin; libraries; library; literature; manuscripts; mentz; number; page; paper; place; press; printers; printing; roman; set; text; time; title; types; use; volumes; work; world; writing; years cache: 33413.txt plain text: 33413.txt item: #15 of 21 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 cache: 3426.txt plain text: 3426.txt item: #16 of 21 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 item: #17 of 21 id: 41230 author: None title: Ballads of Books date: None words: 23885 flesch: 87 summary: I read a book to which old books are new, And new books old. The present collection of varieties in verse has little or naught to do with the great world and its errors: it has to do chiefly, not to say wholly, with the world of the Bookmen--the little world of the Book-lover, the Bibliophile, the Bibliomaniac--a mad world, my masters, in which there are to be found not a few poets who cherish old wine and old wood, old friends and old books, and who believe that old books are the best of old friends. keywords: books; care; collection; day; days; dead; eye; eyes; fly; friends; good; hand; heart; hope; lang; leaves; library; lie; life; light; love; man; men; mind; new; o'er; page; past; poet; present; read; rest; round; shakspere; shelves; song; soul; thee; thoughts; volumes; wisdom; wise; works; world cache: 41230.txt plain text: 41230.txt item: #18 of 21 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 cache: 44810.txt plain text: 44810.txt item: #19 of 21 id: 44890 author: Bouchot, Henri title: The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time date: None words: 64881 flesch: 63 summary: El Monte Santo di Dio_, first book with engraved plates, 52. Loslein, Peter, printer at Venice, 35. Louis XII., ordinance on printing, 108; bindings for, 256, 264; royal library, 291. Louis XIV., bindings for, 281; regulations for bookbinders, Monteregio, _Calendario_, first book with title-page, 50. Montmorency, Anne de, bindings for, 272. Moreau the younger, engraver, 200. Moretus, printer of Antwerp, 141. keywords: art; artists; beginning; bible; bindings; book; booksellers; century; characters; collection; day; death; designs; edition; eighteenth; end; england; english; engraver; engraving; fifteenth; fig; figures; folio; france; francis; french; fust; german; grolier; gutenberg; henri; house; illustration; italian; italy; john; king; letters; library; louis; lyons; manner; mayence; means; men; new; number; paper; paris; place; plates; press; printer; printing; publishers; relief; royal; schoeffer; school; seventeenth; style; taste; text; time; title; tory; type; typography; venice; vignettes; volumes; wood; work; years cache: 44890.txt plain text: 44890.txt item: #20 of 21 id: 45417 author: Wayne, Dorothy title: Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case date: None words: 40716 flesch: 95 summary: At last Dorothy put her comb away, turned to George and broke the silence. Golly, but dey sure is hungry! Miss Dorothy done sol' dat motah fo' two million dollars. keywords: abe; betty; bill; come; conway; dat; door; dorothy; george; going; good; hand; head; house; joyce; know; lewis; long; man; marse; men; ol'; open; place; right; river; road; room; stoker; sure; terry; time; uncle; want; way; young cache: 45417.txt plain text: 45417.txt item: #21 of 21 id: 46609 author: None title: The Book-Lovers' Anthology date: None words: 53193 flesch: 81 summary: We speak on this subject from the most literal experience; for often and often have we cut open a new catalogue of old books, with all the fervour and ivory folder of a first love; often read one at tea; nay, at dinner; and have put crosses against dozens of volumes in the list, out of the pure imagination of buying them, the possibility being _out of the question_!-- Nothing delights us more than to overhaul some dingy tome, and read a chapter gratuitously. Encumbered dearly with old books, Thou, by the pleasant chimney nooks, Didst laugh, with merry-meaning looks, Thy griefs away.--LIONEL JOHNSON. keywords: authors; bible; books; care; day; dead; death; english; eye; eyes; fame; father; find; friends; god; good; grave; half; hand; hath; heart; house; johnson; learning; leaves; libraries; library; life; light; literature; lives; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; new; o'er; oxford; page; people; place; poet; power; read; reading; rest; round; second; set; shakespeare; shelves; sir; soul; study; thee; thing; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; use; volume; want; way; wisdom; wit; works; world; years cache: 46609.txt plain text: 46609.txt