TAILIEUCHUNG - The Book-Hunter in London Historical

IT would be quite as great a fallacy to assume that a rich man is also a wise one, as to take for granted that he who has accumulated a large library is necessarily a learned man. It is a very curious fact, but none the less a fact, that just as the greatest men have the shortest biographies, so have they been content with the smallest libraries. Shakespeare, Voltaire, Humboldt, Comte, Goethe had no collection of books to which the term library could fairly be applied. But though each preferred to find in Nature and in Nature's handiworks the mental exercise which less gifted. | The Book-Hunter in London by William Roberts 1 The Book-Hunter in London by William Roberts The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book-Hunter in London by William Roberts This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Author William Roberts Release Date September 15 2007 EBook 22607 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK-HUNTER IN LONDON The Book-Hunter in London by William Roberts 2 Produced by Suzanne Lybarger Christine D. Lisa Reigel and the booksmiths at http Transcriber s Note Some typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text. Words in Greek in the original are transliterated and placed between plus signs . Words italicized in the original are surrounded by underscores. THE BOOK-HUNTER IN LONDON. Illustration Illustration His soul was never so staked down as in a bookseller s shop. ROGER NORTH. THE BOOK-HUNTER IN LONDON Historical and other Studies of Collectors and Collecting WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. ROBERTS Author of The Earlier History of English Bookselling Printers Marks etc. LONDON ELLIOT STOCK 62 PATERNOSTER ROW . 1895 CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE xiii INTRODUCTION xv EARLY BOOK-HUNTING 1 BOOK-HUNTING AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING 12 FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW 44 BOOK-AUCTIONS AND SALES 98 BOOKSTALLS AND BOOKSTALLING 149 SOME BOOK-HUNTING LOCALITIES 168 WOMEN AS BOOK-COLLECTORS 259 BOOK THIEVES BORROWERS AND KNOCK-OUTS 274 SOME HUMOURS OF BOOK-CATALOGUES 293 The Book-Hunter in London by William Roberts 3 SOME MODERN COLLECTORS 299 INDEX 323 Illustration LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE HIS SOUL WAS NEVER SO STAKED DOWN AS IN A .

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