# bib

id: 61288
author: Teichner, Albert
title: The Real Thing
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words: 2313
sentence: 193
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Ever try collecting? Not money, Tinker answered, eyes still on Mrs. Stahl. Tinker grinned suggestively at Mrs. Stahl.


id: 4768
author: Shell Union Oil Corporation
title: Let's Collect Rocks and Shells
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 5478
sentence: 392
flesch: 77
cache: cache/4768.txt
txt: txt/4768.txt
summary:
  Many shells are covered with a self-made brown sheath, the PERIOSTRACUM. Many shells have wonderfully descriptive names.


id: 2164
author: Cooper, Susan Fenimore
title: The Lumley Autograph
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 11491
sentence: 437
flesch: 64
cache: cache/2164.txt
txt: txt/2164.txt
summary:
  I wish I could add that the fortune of Colonel H---- had augmented in the same proportion; but, unhappily for his widow, the reverse was the case; and it was owing to this combination of circumstances that Lady Holberton at length obtained possession of the Lumley Autograph. Suffice it to declare that the young man received his commission, through the influence of Lady Holberton, in a high military quarter, while the Lumley Autograph was placed on a distinguished leaf of that lady's velvet-bound, jewel-clasped album.


id: 18809
author: Lansdown, Henry Venn
title: Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18052
sentence: 844
flesch: 73
cache: cache/18809.txt
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summary:
  We were shown upstairs, passing many fine family pictures, and were ushered into the neat library, where Mr. Beckford was waiting to receive us. Mr. Beckford and my Father were kindred spirits, conversant with the same authors, had visited the same countries, and were both gifted with extraordinary memories.


id: 33144
author: Ellwanger, William De Lancey
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18296
sentence: 818
flesch: 70
cache: cache/33144.txt
txt: txt/33144.txt
title:
  The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors.

summary:
  Choice old rugs, therefore, to-day come into the same class with genuine paintings of the old Dutch School; with canvases of Teniers, Ruysdael, Cuyp, Ostade, or whatever similar artist's work may have escaped the museums. So the mats of commerce are either new, coarse, and crude and offensive with arsenical greens and aniline crimsons and magentas; or they are but soiled patches and bits of old rugs sewn together.


id: 38746
author: Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf)
title: The Unpublishable Memoirs
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22962
sentence: 1642
flesch: 83
cache: cache/38746.txt
txt: txt/38746.txt
summary:
  He was one of those men who make their living picking up old books, old guns, old papers, old coins, old pictures, old everything. I'm sorry, Mr. Fenn, returned the proprietor, Mr. Hooker, here, has just said that he would take it.


id: 626
author: Bury, Richard de
title: The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24979
sentence: 667
flesch: 56
cache: cache/626.txt
txt: txt/626.txt
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.


id: 13114
author: Mather, Frank Jewett
title: The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 34961
sentence: 1873
flesch: 75
cache: cache/13114.txt
txt: txt/13114.txt
summary:
  When he learned, as a man of means soon must, that good pictures may still be bought in Italy, he promptly succumbed to the covetousness of the collector, and the motor-car became predatory. As he prowls he sees many fine things which he neither covets nor could afford to keep, but which are offered at prices temptingly below their value in the great shops.


id: 34877
author: Hayden, Arthur
title: Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 36536
sentence: 2087
flesch: 69
cache: cache/34877.txt
txt: txt/34877.txt
summary:
  Doubts have even been expressed regarding certain pieces in the great national collections; in fact the art of the forger in regard to old French furniture, of which specimens change hands at anything from £1,000 to £10,000, has reached a very high level of excellence, having almost been elevated to one of the fine arts. CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE


id: 47040
author: Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
title: Chats on Old Copper and Brass
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 58007
sentence: 2495
flesch: 66
cache: cache/47040.txt
txt: txt/47040.txt
summary:
  In evidence of the lasting quality of old brass works, a well-known writer has put forward the interesting story of a chamber clock presented by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn on their wedding day. Many metal curios, much battered by fallen masonry, have been found among the ruins of Norman castles and in some cases of the still earlier Saxon dwellings.


id: 39891
author: Pemberton, Max
title: Jewel Mysteries, from a Dealer's Note Book
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 66224
sentence: 2596
flesch: 77
cache: cache/39891.txt
txt: txt/39891.txt
summary:
  Few men had come to London with stronger recommendation than Kershaw Klein, and even the banks had trusted him implicitly. Stories of men drugged, or robbed, or murdered by jewel thieves crowded upon my mind, but always with the recollection that I should carry nothing to Boscobel Place.


id: 41393
author: Hazlitt, William Carew
title: The Confessions of a Collector
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 77633
sentence: 2751
flesch: 62
cache: cache/41393.txt
txt: txt/41393.txt
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.


id: 21630
author: Merryweather, F. Somner (Frederick Somner)
title: Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 87348
sentence: 4112
flesch: 67
cache: cache/21630.txt
txt: txt/21630.txt
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]


# ent

id: 18809
sid: 359
eid: 2
type: PERSON
entity:
  curieux des hommes n'avait rien omis dans ce palais de ce qui pouvait contenter la curiosite de ceux qui le visitait


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


