Shadows of the Old Booksellers (Classic Reprint)

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View, appear to have too much of a com merciai character to be generally interesting. At any rate they may seem more fitted for the valuable but somewhat dry details of bibliography, than to be included under a title which may indicate something as much akin to fiction as to fact. In 1851 and 1852 I wrote for Mr. Dickens's 'household Words' a series of sketches under the title of 'shadows;' by which title I sought to indicate their half ideal, half real, character. Those 'shadows' had for the most part the interest which belongs to romance as well as to history. The subjects of the present outlines, with a few exceptions, are little fitted for imaginative pictures of startling adventures, or of curious details of domestic life. But they have another sort of interest. They flit before me, ever accompanied with Shadows of many.

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