Bibliomania: Or Book-madness ; a Bibliographical Romance ; Illustrated with CutsHenry G. Bohn, 1842 - 618 страници |
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... JOHN ALBERT FABRICIUS . His labours + shed a From the Latin life of LE LONG , prefixed to his Bibliotheca Sacra , we learn that he was an adept in most languages , ancient and modern ; and that " in that part of literature connected ...
... JOHN ALBERT FABRICIUS . His labours + shed a From the Latin life of LE LONG , prefixed to his Bibliotheca Sacra , we learn that he was an adept in most languages , ancient and modern ; and that " in that part of literature connected ...
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... John Albert Fabricius . I have often gleaned some curious bibliographical intelligence from its copious pages . The reader may consult Bibl . Creven . , vol . v . , 272-3 . * He is noticed here only as the author of " Idea Bibliotheca ...
... John Albert Fabricius . I have often gleaned some curious bibliographical intelligence from its copious pages . The reader may consult Bibl . Creven . , vol . v . , 272-3 . * He is noticed here only as the author of " Idea Bibliotheca ...
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... JOHN JACOB BAUER , a bookseller at Nuremberg , and printed there in 1770 , 8vo . , two vols .; with three additional volumes by way of Supplement , 1774-1791 , which latter are usually bound in one . It is an alphabetical Dictionary ...
... JOHN JACOB BAUER , a bookseller at Nuremberg , and printed there in 1770 , 8vo . , two vols .; with three additional volumes by way of Supplement , 1774-1791 , which latter are usually bound in one . It is an alphabetical Dictionary ...
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... John Banger . Russell ( in Dorsetshire ) , written in the ensuing month of June , the same senti- ments and the same intention are avowed . Thus ardent was the bibliomaniacal spirit of Herbert in his 72d year ! The interleaved copy here ...
... John Banger . Russell ( in Dorsetshire ) , written in the ensuing month of June , the same senti- ments and the same intention are avowed . Thus ardent was the bibliomaniacal spirit of Herbert in his 72d year ! The interleaved copy here ...
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... John Seconton Powlter , dwelling within the parish of St. Clements Danes , being a poor man , having four small children , and fallen to decay . " Lis . You spoke of a bow - windowed extremity— 106 THE AUCTION ROOM .
... John Seconton Powlter , dwelling within the parish of St. Clements Danes , being a poor man , having four small children , and fallen to decay . " Lis . You spoke of a bow - windowed extremity— 106 THE AUCTION ROOM .
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Страница 106 - 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...
Страница 267 - 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.
Страница 211 - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
Страница 333 - 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...
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Страница 271 - 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...
Страница 272 - ... 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...
Страница 394 - The first part of the true and honorable history, of the life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham.
Страница 391 - William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Страница 211 - 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.