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The plan--The writer's practical career--Deficiency of a general knowledge of the subject--The Printed Book and the Manuscript independent branches of study--The rich and the poor collector--Their relative systems and advantages--Great results achieved by persons of moderate f...
Foundations of bibliography--Commencement of advertising books through catalogues and lists at end of other publications--Classes of literature principally in demand--Origin of...
7. Chapter 7Transmission of ancient remains--The unique fragment and unique book--Importance of the former--The St. Alban's Grammar-School find--A more recent one or two--Mr. Neal's volume-...
1. Chapter 1The plan--The writer's practical career--Deficiency of a general knowledge of the subject--The Printed Book and the Manuscript independent branches of study--The rich and the po...
12. Chapter 12Materials on which books are printed--Early popular works printed on vellum--The _edition de luxe_ again--Binding of books--Earliest method and style--Printers who were also bin...
14. Chapter 14Aids to the formation of a library: (i.) Personal observation; (ii.) Works of reference--Rarity of taste and judgment--Dependence of some booksellers on want of knowledge in the...
15. Chapter 15Fluctuations in the value of books--The prices of books comparative--Low prices adverse to the sale of books in certain cases--Great difficulty in arriving at the market-price o...
6. Chapter 6The safest course--Consideration of the relative value and interest of books in libraries--The intrinsic and extrinsic aspects--Consolation for the less wealthy buyer--The best...
5. Chapter 5Voyages and travels--Their strong American interest--Maryland and Pennsylvania--New Plymouth--Sir John Mandeville--Columbus and Vespucci--Early medical literature--Harvey and th...
11. Chapter 11The extrinsic features in books--Autographs--Inscriptions--Various classes of them and of interest in their subject-matter--The Henry VIII. _Prayer-Book_ of 1544--Some account o...
9. Chapter 9The Modern Side--Words of advice--The place and functions of Free Libraries--Coleridge and Byron period--Unhealthy state of the market--The Dickens and Thackeray movement--Fashi...
8. Chapter 8Early English literature--Absorption of the rarer items by public libraries or by America--Future of collecting--Poetical writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Fru...
13. Chapter 13English and other national binders--Anonymous bindings--List of binders--The Scotish School--Mr. Quaritch out-bidden--The vellum copy of Boece's _Chronicles of Scotland_--Most f...
10. Chapter 10Our failure to realise the requirements of Illustrated Books--The French School--La Fontaine's _Contes et Nouvelles_, 1762--Imperfect conception of what constitutes a thoroughly...
2. Chapter 2Spoliation of public libraries in past times--Denouncers of the robbers of books--Schedule of public libraries in the United Kingdom--View of the chief features of some of these...
3. Chapter 3The Huth Library--Special familiarity of the writer with it--Seven influential collectors of our time--The great dispersions of old-established libraries--Althorp--Ashburnham--J...
4. Chapter 4Classification of collections--Origin of the taste for books--Schedule of topics or branches of inquiry--Each separately considered and the authorities cited--Ancient typography...