 | William Wilkie Collins - 1876 - 500 ページ
...CURWEN. Crown 8vo, with Frontispiece and numerous Portraits and Illustrations, cloth extra, js. 6*/. "In these days, ten ordinary Histories of Kings and...the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers." — THOMAS CARLYLK. "This stout little book is unquestionably amusing. Ill-starred, indeed, must be... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1876 - 320 ページ
...CURWEN. Crown 8vo, with Frontispiece and numerous Portraits and Illustrations, cloth extra, 7$. 6rf. "In these days, ten ordinary Histories of 'Kings and...tenth part of one good History of Booksellers."— THOMAS CARLYLE. "This stout little book is unquestionably amusing. Ill-starred, indeed, must be the... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 726 ページ
...CUKWSN. Crown 8vo, with Frontispiece and numerous Portraits and Illustrations, cloth extra, -js. 6d. " In these days, ten ordinary Histories of Kings and...exchanged against the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers.*1— THOMAS CARLYLB. "This stout little book is unquestionably amusing. Ill-starred, indeed,... | |
 | Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 440 ページ
...CURWEN. Crown 8vo, with . Frontispiece and numerous Portraits and Illustrations, cloth extra, 7s. 6d. " In these days, ten ordinary Histories of Kings and Courtiers were well ex- . _,changed against the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers." — THOMAS CARLYLE. "This... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 362 ページ
...Illustrations, cloth extra, js. 6d. " In these days, ten ordinary Histories of K1ngs and Courtiers werj well exchanged against the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers." — THOMAS CARLYLE. "This stout little book is unquestionably amusing. Ill-starred, indeed, must be... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 ページ
...great public, must take high rank among tho benefactors of his kind. "In these days," says Carlyle, "ten ordinary histories of kings and courtiers were well exchanged against the tenth part of онч good history of booksellers." Two stories are told in which Constable was at fault in his refusal... | |
 | Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than how my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland : who can tell it me ? " Robertson," say innumerable voices; " Robertson against the world."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 88 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland: who can tell it me 1 ' Robertson,' say innumerable voices ; ' Robertson against the world.'... | |
 | Giuseppe Mattei, Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil) - 1887 - 608 ページ
...die As long as my life shall last. Stmntea. STELLA VAUGHAN. SOME EIGHTEENTH CENTUKY BOOKSELLERS. " In these days ten ordinary histories of kings and...the tenth part of one good history of booksellers : " this was Carlyle's dictum, and Mr. Curwen verv appropriately prefixes it to his interesting History.... | |
 | William Roberts - 1889 - 402 ページ
...BOOKSELLING. CHAPTER I. BOOKSELLING BEFORE PRINTING. CARLYLE has, truthfully we think, declared that ' ten ordinary histories of kings and courtiers were...the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers.' In the history of the whole world no movement can be pointed at whose inception involved so many issues,... | |
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In these days, ten ordinary Histories of Kings and Courtiers were well exchanged against the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers. 
