Bibliomania: Or Book-madness ; a Bibliographical Romance ; Illustrated with CutsHenry G. Bohn, 1842 - 618 ページ |
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... sales ; as nothing is more capricious and unsettled than the value of books at a public auction . But , in regard to these catalogues , if Bulteau ) a Gabr . Martin . Paris , 1711 , 12mo . , 2 vols . in one . This catalogue , which is ...
... sales ; as nothing is more capricious and unsettled than the value of books at a public auction . But , in regard to these catalogues , if Bulteau ) a Gabr . Martin . Paris , 1711 , 12mo . , 2 vols . in one . This catalogue , which is ...
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... sold by public auction . The second impression of 1789 is the sale- catalogue , and contains more books than the preceding one ; but the bibliogra- phical observations are comparatively trifling . There are copies of this latter im ...
... sold by public auction . The second impression of 1789 is the sale- catalogue , and contains more books than the preceding one ; but the bibliogra- phical observations are comparatively trifling . There are copies of this latter im ...
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... sold by auction at Paris , in 1792 , from a French catalogue prepared by De Bure . Some of the books were purchased by Mr. Edwards , and sold at London in the Paris collec- tion [ vide p . 90 , post ] ; as were also those relating to ...
... sold by auction at Paris , in 1792 , from a French catalogue prepared by De Bure . Some of the books were purchased by Mr. Edwards , and sold at London in the Paris collec- tion [ vide p . 90 , post ] ; as were also those relating to ...
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... bought : forming the greater part of his own library of early printed books . See too the Bibliogr . Miscellany , vol . ii . , 72. The collection of 1773 was sold by auction , for Mr. Robson , by Messrs . Baker and Leigh - and a fine ...
... bought : forming the greater part of his own library of early printed books . See too the Bibliogr . Miscellany , vol . ii . , 72. The collection of 1773 was sold by auction , for Mr. Robson , by Messrs . Baker and Leigh - and a fine ...
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... sales for certain curious and uncommon - but certainly not highly ... sell by retail , whereby many of the king's subjects , being binders of books , and having no other faculty therewith to get their living , be destitute ... AUCTION ROOM .
... sales for certain curious and uncommon - but certainly not highly ... sell by retail , whereby many of the king's subjects , being binders of books , and having no other faculty therewith to get their living , be destitute ... AUCTION ROOM .
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106 ページ - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day ; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear; Hounds are in their couples yelling. Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily merrily mingle they: Waken, lords and ladies gay...
267 ページ - I took, early in the morning, a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck ; and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias.
211 ページ - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
333 ページ - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung ! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods...
559 ページ - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
271 ページ - This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation ; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish Knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse...
272 ページ - ... up an octavo to a sufficient thickness ; and there is six shillings current for an hour and a half's reading, and perhaps never to be read or looked upon after. One that would go higher must take his fortune at blank walls and corners of streets, or repair to the sign of Bateman, Innys, and one or two more where are best choice and better pennyworths. I might touch other abuses, as bad paper, incorrect printing, and false advertising ; all which and worse is to be expected if a careful author...
394 ページ - The first part of the true and honorable history, of the life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham.
391 ページ - William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
211 ページ - A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their Jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations.