CHAPTER V

Mr Henry Pyne--His Ideas as a Collector, and My Intercourse with Him--His Office One of My Regular Lounges--His Willingness to Part with Certain Books--I buy a Pig in a Poke, and It turns out well--Mr Pyne's Sale--A Frost--I buy All the Best Lots for a Trifle--The Volume of _Occasional Forms of Prayer_ and Its History--Pyne's Personal Career and Relations--His Investigation of the Affairs of a Noble Family--The Booksellers--Joseph Lily--His Sale--His Services to Mr Huth--The Daniel Books in 1864--Daniel's Flyleaf Fibs--The Event an Extraordinary _Coup_--The Napier First Folio Shakespear knocked down and out at £151--Why some Books are Dear without being Very Rare--F. S. Ellis and the Corser Sale--My Successful Tactics--He lends me Sir F. Freeling's Interleaved _Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica_ 73