Shadows of the Old BooksellersBell and Daldy, 1865 - 320 pages |
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... FORTY YEARS AGO , IN OUR MUTUAL DESIRE TO MAKE KNOWLEDGE A COMMON POSSESSION , INSTEAD OF AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY , I INSCRIBE , WITH THE TRUEST REGARD , THESE SHADOWS OF A PAST AGE OF LETTERS . CHARLES KNIGHT . JACOB TONSON.
... FORTY YEARS AGO , IN OUR MUTUAL DESIRE TO MAKE KNOWLEDGE A COMMON POSSESSION , INSTEAD OF AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY , I INSCRIBE , WITH THE TRUEST REGARD , THESE SHADOWS OF A PAST AGE OF LETTERS . CHARLES KNIGHT . JACOB TONSON.
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... book - trade , until very modern times . The dealers in old books , the publishers of new books , the book - printers , the printers of journals , and even " " the book - auctioneers and printsellers , held a common vi INTRODUCTION .
... book - trade , until very modern times . The dealers in old books , the publishers of new books , the book - printers , the printers of journals , and even " " the book - auctioneers and printsellers , held a common vi INTRODUCTION .
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Charles Knight. the book - auctioneers and printsellers , held a common place in the registers of that ancient company which had existence before the introduction of printing , that of the " Stationers or Text - writers , who wrote and ...
Charles Knight. the book - auctioneers and printsellers , held a common place in the registers of that ancient company which had existence before the introduction of printing , that of the " Stationers or Text - writers , who wrote and ...
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... common battle against ignorance . My attempt to call up Shadows that might repre- sent something of the substance of literary progress , is far less complete than it might have been could I have included in one volume other names that ...
... common battle against ignorance . My attempt to call up Shadows that might repre- sent something of the substance of literary progress , is far less complete than it might have been could I have included in one volume other names that ...
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... common to all printers . Then privilege stepped in , and confined the right to Her Majesty's printer . Similar privi- leges were granted for law books , for the A B C and the catechism , for psalters and primers , for Latin books used ...
... common to all printers . Then privilege stepped in , and confined the right to Her Majesty's printer . Similar privi- leges were granted for law books , for the A B C and the catechism , for psalters and primers , for Latin books used ...
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Page 243 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 107 - now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? ' ' Sir,' replied he, ' these are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end.
Page 121 - On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors besieged the shop ; entreaties, advices, threats of law and battery, nay cries of treason, were all employed to hinder the coming out of the " Dunciad ; " on the other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it.
Page 233 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children : he called himself their friend; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste to be gone; for he was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of on
Page 205 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page 187 - I am guilty, I own, of meannesses which poverty unavoidably brings with it, my reflections are filled with repentance for my imprudence, but not with any remorse for being a villain, that may be a character you unjustly charge me with.
Page 107 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care ? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
Page 72 - Ridotta sips and dances, till she see The doubling lustres dance as fast as she; F— loves the senate, Hockley-hole his brother, Like in all else, as one egg to another.
Page 258 - ... a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 226 - I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand, and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table, and almost on every toilette...