Category: History - British
Historians and Biographers, together with Librarians and Booksellers, have a natural antipathy to anonymous books; and, wherever they can, are willing to accept the smallest amount of evidence as proof of paternity. It saves much trouble and avoids numerous errors in catalogui...
Historians and Biographers, together with Librarians and Booksellers, have a natural antipathy to anonymous books; and, wherever they can, are willing to accept the smallest amo...
2. CHAPTER II.Old books must be loved, and their idiosyncrasies carefully studied, before they will yield up _all_ their treasures; that done, the observant lover will obtain possession of bo...
3. CHAPTER III.In the rude civilisation of the fifteenth century, a year’s experience of which would send most of us to our graves, the mental occupation as well as the bodily recreation of ou...
4. CHAPTER IV.There is a strongly marked individuality in the spelling throughout all the treatises in this work. If the Hunting rhymes belong to Dam Julyans, their orthography, like the pros...