The Enemies of BooksE. Stock, 1880 - 155 стор. |
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anecdote Anobium attacked beetle biblio bibliographical binder binding black-letter books BLADES bleach boards Boccacio Bodleian Library Boke BOOKBINDERS books burnt books printed bookworm British Museum Canterbury Tales Cardinal Ximenes catalogue caterpillar century CHAPTER collection collectors copy Cotton Library covers Crambus curious damp decay destroyed Destruction of Books dust early ENEMIES OF BOOKS engraved Ephesus fifteenth-century fire Fire of London folio fragments FRONTISPIECES Gainsborough grub heat holes injured Injury to Books John Bagford larvæ leaf leaves letter librarian light literary London Ludgate Hill manuscripts Mazarine Library Monks moth nacyons neglect old books old libraries original paper pertinax pest Philarète Chasles pinguinalis PLATE Poet portraits preserved printers quarto rare books reader Ringwalt rubbish shelf shelves sold soon theyr thys titles took treasures typography Vanderberg vellum volumes well-known whole library whyche William Caxton Wolfenbüttel worm کم کم کم
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Сторінка 4 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Сторінка 57 - THERE is a sort of busy worm That will the fairest books deform, By gnawing holes throughout them ; Alike through every leaf they go, Yet of its merits nought they know, Nor care they aught about them. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage, or saint, Nor sparing wit nor learning : Now, if you'd know the reason why, The best of reasons I'll supply— 'Tis bread to the poor vermin. Of pepper, snuff, or 'bacca-smoke, And russia-calf they make a joke.
Сторінка 49 - Boke, gave him three shillings for the lot, Not being able to read the colophon, he took it to an equally ignorant stationer, and offered it to him for a guinea, at which price he declined it, but proposed that it should be exposed in his window, as a means of eliciting some information about it. It was accordingly placed there, with the label—
Сторінка 50 - Models), came in and took the book to collate, but brought it back in the morning, having found it imperfect in the middle, and offered 5/. for it. Sir Charles had no book of reference to guide him to its value. But, in the meantime Stark had employed a friend to obtain for him the refusal of it, and had undertaken to give for it a little more than any sum Sir Charles might offer.
Сторінка 62 - ... the leaves and covers. Its head appears bigg and blunt, and its body tapers from it towards the tail, smaller and smaller, being shap'd almost like a carret ... It has two long horns before, which are streight, and tapering towards the top, curiously ring'd or knobb'd and brisled much like the marsh weed called Horses tail . . . The hinder part is terminated with three tails, in every particular resembling the two longer horns that grow out of the head. The legs are scal'd and hair'd. This animal...
Сторінка 42 - M. Derome loquitur: — Let us now enter the communal library of some large provincial town. The interior has a lamentable appearance; dust and disorder have made it their home. It has a librarian, but he has the consideration of a porter only, and goes but once a week to see the state of the books committed to his care; they are in a bad state, piled in heaps and perishing in corners for want of attention and binding. At this present time (1879) more than one public library in Paris could be mentioned...
Сторінка 9 - I knowe a merchant manne, whych shall at thys tyme be namelesse, that boughte y" contentes of two noble lybraryes for forty shyllynges pryce : a shame it is to be spoken. Thys stuffe hathe he occupyed in y° stede of greye paper, by ye space of more than these ten yeares, and yet he hathe store ynoughe for as manye years to come. A prodygyous example is thys, and to be abhorred of all men whyche love theyr nacyon as they shoulde do. The monkes kepte them undre dust, y...
Сторінка 43 - The Poet Boccaccio, when travelling in Apulia, was anxious to visit the celebrated Convent of Mount Cassin, especially to see its library, of which he had heard much. He accosted, with great courtesy, one of the monks whose countenance attracted him, and begged him to have the kindness to show him the library. "See for yourself," said the monk, brusquely, pointing at the same time to an old stone staircase, broken with age. Boccaccio hastily mounted in great joy at the prospect of a grand bibliographical...
Сторінка 54 - ... well-known and too recent to need description. In this case mere chance seems to have led to the preservation of works, the very existence of which set the ears of all lovers of Shakespeare a-tingling. In the summer of 1877, a gentleman with whom I was well acquainted took lodgings in Preston Street, Brighton. The morning after his arrival, he found in the wc some leaves of an old black-letter book. He asked permission to retain them, and enquired if there were any more where they came from....