Books and Bookmen

Books and Bookmen

The essays in this volume have, for the most part, already appeared in an American edition (Combes, New York, 1886). The Essays on Old French Title-Pages and Lady Book-Lovers take the place of Book Binding and Bookmen at Rome; Elzevirs and Some Japanese Bogie-Books are reprinted, with permission of Messrs. Cassell, from the Magazine of Art; Curiosities of Parish Registers from the Guardian; Literary Forgeries from the Contemporary Review; Lady Book-Lovers from the Fortnightly Review; A Bookmans Purgatory and two of the pieces of verse from Longmans Magazinewith the courteous permission of the various editors. All the chapters have been revised, and I have to thank Mr. H. Tedder for his kind care in reading the proof sheets, and Mr. Charles Elton, M.P., for a similar service to the Essay on Parish Registers. The Countryman. You know how much, for some time past, the editions of the Elzevirs have been in demand. The fancy for them has even penetrated into the country. I am acquainted with a man there who denies himself necessaries, for the sake of collecting into a library (where other books are scarce enough) as many little Elzevirs as he can lay his hands upon. He is dying of hunger, and his consolation is to be able to say, I have all the poets whom the Elzevirs printed. I have ten examples of each of them, all with red letters, and all of the right date. This, no doubt, is a craze, for, good as the books are, if he kept them to read them, one example of each would be enough. The Parisian. If he had wanted to read them, I would not have advised him to buy Elzevirs. The editions of minor authors which these booksellers published, even editions of the right date, as you say, are not too correct. Nothing is good in the books but the type and the paper. Your friend would have done better to use the editions of Gryphius or Estienne. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 1961
Author: Lang, Andrew
Release Date: Nov 1, 1999
Format: eBook
Language: English