item: #1 of 15 id: 13114 author: Mather, Frank Jewett title: The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments date: None words: 34961 flesch: 75 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. keywords: anitchkoff; art; brush; campbell; collector; coronal; corot; course; crocker; day; days; del; dennis; emma; eye; giorgione; good; great; hand; harwood; john; left; lombard; man; mantovani; michael; moment; morrison; new; object; painter; picture; pots; puente; right; rosenheim; talk; thing; thought; time; vogelstein; want; way; years cache: 13114.txt plain text: 13114.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 18809 author: Lansdown, Henry Venn title: Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath date: None words: 18052 flesch: 73 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. keywords: beckford; door; drawing; effect; father; feet; fine; fonthill; gold; left; light; man; manner; picture; place; portrait; road; room; time; tower; trees; vathek; view; windows; years cache: 18809.txt plain text: 18809.txt item: #3 of 15 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: #4 of 15 id: 2164 author: Cooper, Susan Fenimore title: The Lumley Autograph date: None words: 11491 flesch: 64 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. keywords: album; autograph; day; holberton; howard; lady; lady holberton; letter; lumley; lumley autograph; miss; otway; poet; rowley; time cache: 2164.txt plain text: 2164.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 23742 author: Unknown title: Charley's Museum A Story for Young People date: None words: 6965 flesch: 82 summary: YOUNG SHELLS. Mr. Brown went on taking more shells from his pocket and talking all the time. keywords: birds; brown; charley; good; illustration; museum; shell; uncle cache: 23742.txt plain text: 23742.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 33144 author: Ellwanger, William De Lancey 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. date: None words: 18296 flesch: 70 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. keywords: antique; bags; beauty; borders; carpets; class; collector; colour; design; dyes; figures; fine; illustration; modern; new; oriental; persian; pieces; rugs; specimens; value; wool; woven; years cache: 33144.txt plain text: 33144.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 34877 author: Hayden, Arthur title: Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors date: None words: 36536 flesch: 69 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 keywords: anne; art; cabinet; century; chair; charles; chippendale; christie; collection; days; design; drawers; england; english; french; furniture; glossary; illustrated; illustration; inlaid; jacobean; legs; louis; mahogany; marquetry; museum; oak; panels; period; permission; pieces; queen; renaissance; sheraton; sixteenth; specimens; style; table; time; walnut; wood; work cache: 34877.txt plain text: 34877.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 38746 author: Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) title: The Unpublishable Memoirs date: None words: 22962 flesch: 83 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. keywords: blaythwaite; book; day; doctor; dollars; fenn; great; hooker; house; john; letter; library; libro; money; museum; new; robert; story; thing; thought; time; volume; way; world; years cache: 38746.txt plain text: 38746.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 39891 author: Pemberton, Max title: Jewel Mysteries, from a Dealer's Note Book date: None words: 66224 flesch: 77 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. keywords: answer; believe; business; case; course; day; days; diamonds; door; doubt; end; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; head; hotel; hour; house; jewel; lady; left; life; light; london; look; lord; man; mind; minutes; moment; morning; necklace; paris; place; police; pounds; room; set; stones; street; table; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; word; work; worth cache: 39891.txt plain text: 39891.txt item: #10 of 15 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 cache: 41393.txt plain text: 41393.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 4264 author: James, Henry title: The Golden Bowl — Complete date: None words: 211965 flesch: 75 summary: “Maggie herself of course--astonishing little Maggie.” This gave Charlotte time to go on. keywords: air; amerigo; assingham; case; charlotte; colonel; come; companion; course; day; dear; effect; eyes; face; fact; fanny; father; find; friend; going; good; great; hand; having; head; help; home; hour; husband; idea; instant; left; life; look; maggie; making; man; matter; mean; mind; minute; moment; mrs; need; new; occasion; particular; people; place; point; present; prince; princess; question; reason; right; room; round; sense; things; think; thought; time; truth; verver; view; want; way; wife; woman; words; world cache: 4264.txt plain text: 4264.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 47040 author: Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William) title: Chats on Old Copper and Brass date: None words: 58007 flesch: 66 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. keywords: age; antique; art; bells; boxes; brass; brasses; brasswork; british; bronze; candlesticks; cast; centuries; century; chapter; chats; church; collection; collectors; come; cooking; copper; countries; country; curios; days; designs; enamels; examples; fig; fire; form; handle; illustration; indian; influence; interest; lamps; london; making; mediæval; metal; metal curios; metal objects; museum; objects; old; ornaments; parts; period; pieces; place; plates; purpose; relics; roman; time; utensils; vessels; water; way; work; workers; years cache: 47040.txt plain text: 47040.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 4768 author: Shell Union Oil Corporation title: Let's Collect Rocks and Shells date: None words: 5478 flesch: 77 summary: Many shells are covered with a self-made brown sheath, the PERIOSTRACUM. Many shells have wonderfully descriptive names. keywords: captions; collection; earth; figure; gems; minerals; mollusks; names; oil; rocks; shells; species; specimens; water cache: 4768.txt plain text: 4768.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 61288 author: Teichner, Albert title: The Real Thing date: None words: 2313 flesch: 83 summary: Ever try collecting? Not money, Tinker answered, eyes still on Mrs. Stahl. Tinker grinned suggestively at Mrs. Stahl. keywords: smith; stahl; thing; tinker cache: 61288.txt plain text: 61288.txt item: #15 of 15 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 cache: 626.txt plain text: 626.txt