        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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