Bibliomania
I. IN EULOGY OF CATALOGUES II. A COMPARISON OF PRICES III. SOME LUCKY FINDS IV. THE FORGOTTEN LORE SOCIETY V. SOME HUNTING-GROUNDS OF LONDON VI. VAGARIES OF BOOK-HUNTERS VII. HOW FASHION LIVES VIII. THE RULES OF THE CHASE IX. THE GLAMOUR OF BINDINGS X. THE HAMMER AND THE END
I. IN EULOGY OF CATALOGUES II. A COMPARISON OF PRICES III. SOME LUCKY FINDS IV. THE FORGOTTEN LORE SOCIETY V. SOME HUNTING-GROUNDS OF LONDON VI. VAGARIES OF BOOK-HUNTERS VII. HO...
2. Part 2The Duke of Roxburghe's library comprised rather more than 10,000 works in about 30,000 volumes, and the auctioneer's method of classifying this large assortment was so peculiar...
3. Part 3It is next to impossible to open any book about books without meeting with instances of lucky finds, and the most curious part of the matter is that the stories are invariably m...
4. Part 4If an extremely scarce or interesting book, for which one has, perhaps, been searching for years, is at last acquired at any price whatever, the 'find' is none the less real, me...
5. Part 5The upshot of this was that we said we should like to see Scrope and the 'Female Parson,' but our bellicose correspondent refused to part with either till he got the money, for...
6. Part 6And Holywell Street, be it said, is such historic and classic ground, that it is threatened every day by the improver, who longs to lay its north side open to the Strand, and wi...
7. Part 7Bookmen of the present day, or at least those among them who aspire to the highest seats in the collectors' Pantheon, are invariably bound by rule, and it is this hard and fast...
8. Part 8Collections which had their beginnings in materials such as these authors afforded were, and necessarily must be, totally different in every possible way from those of the prior...
9. Part 9Whether any regulations are really necessary for the proper preservation of books old or new let the bibliophiles determine; but so long as they exist it is folly to ignore them...
10. Part 10Rarer than any of this period, however, are the medallion bindings of Demetrio Canevari, physician to Pope Urban VII., who was living in the year 1600. In all probability Caneva...