# Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector

Author: Layard, George Somes, 1857-1925

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55710

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Suppressed+Plates%2C+Wood-engravings%2C+%26c.+Together+with+Other+Curiosities+Germane+Thereto%3B+Layard&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

No one who has the itch for book-collecting will deny that suppressed book illustrations are, what the forbidden fruit was to our mother Eve, irresistible. Whether such appetite represents the very proper ambition to have at his elbow the earliest states of beautiful or interesting books, of which the subsequently suppressed plate or wood engraving is in general a sort of guarantee, or the less defensible desire to possess what our neighbour does not, must be settled by the conscience of each. The fact remains that such rarities are peculiarly alluring to those whom Wotton calls “the lickerish chapmen of all such ware.” {2}

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/suppressed-plates-wood-engravings-and-c-together-with-other-cur-9088489c/chapters/1/index.md)