The Enemies of Books

Chapter 9

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COLLECTORS.

Bagford the biblioclast.--Illustrations torn from MSS.--Title-pages torn from books.--Rubens, his engraved titles.--Colophons torn out of books.--Lincoln Cathedral--Dr. Dibdin's Nosegay.--Theurdanck.--Fragments of MSS.--Some libraries almost useless.--Pepysian.--Teylerian.--Sir Thomas Phillipps.