The Library by Andrew Lang

By Andrew Lang

PubOne.info thanks in your persevered aid and need to provide you this re-creation. The pages during this quantity on illuminated and different MSS. (with the exception of a few anecdotes approximately Bussy Rabutin and Julie de Rambouillet) were contributed via the Rev. W. J. Loftie, who has additionally written on early published books (pp. 94-95). The pages at the Biblioklept (pp. 46-56) are reprinted, with the Editor's type permission, from the Saturday assessment; and some comments at the ethical classes of bookstalls are taken from an essay within the comparable magazine. [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]

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Let not the collector ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances, part with any of his treasures. Let him not even have recourse to that practice called barter, which political philosophers tell us is the universal resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to purchasing only. " There is room for difference of opinion here, but there seems to be most reason on the side of Mr. Hill Burton. It is one thing for the collector to be able to reflect that the money he expends on books is not lost, and that his family may find themselves richer, not poorer, because he indulged his taste.

It is not a beautiful book; the type is small, and rather blunt, but William Drummond of Hawthornden has written on the title- page his name and his device, Cipresso e Palma. There are a dozen modern editions of Moliere more easily read than the four little volumes of Wetstein (Amsterdam, 1698), but these contain reduced copies of the original illustrations, and here you see Arnolphe and Agnes in their habits as they lived, Moliere and Mdlle. de Brie as the public of Paris beheld them more than two hundred years ago.

Or the object of your desires may be the books of the French romanticists, who flourished so freely in 1830. Or, being a person of large fortune and landed estate, you may collect country histories. Again, your heart may be set on the books illustrated by Eisen, Cochin, and Gravelot, or Stothard and Blake, in the last century. Or you may be so old-fashioned as to care for Aldine classics, and for the books of the Giunta press. In fact, as many as are the species of rare and beautiful books, so many are the species of collectors.

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