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Title: The Book-Collector
A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have
engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period
to the Present Time

Author: William Carew Hazlitt

Release Date: March 1, 2009 [EBook #28225]

Language: English

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BOOK-COLLECTOR

A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who
have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from
the Earliest Period to the Present Time

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIBRARIES
AND ANECDOTES OF THEIR FOUNDERS OR OWNERS
AND REMARKS ON BOOKBINDING AND ON
SPECIAL COPIES OF BOOKS

BY

W. CAREW HAZLITT

JOHN GRANT

LONDON

1904

[Illustration: Key to the Characters in the 'Field-day at Sotheby's.']

1 Mr. G. S. Snowden 11 Lord Brabourne 21 Mr. Dykes Campbell
2 Mr. E. Daniell 12 Mr. W. Ward 22 Palmer's boy
3 Mr. Railton 13 Mr. Leighton 23 Dr. Neligan
4 Mr. J. Rimell 14 Mr. E. W. Stibbs 24 Mr. C. Hindley
5 Mr. E. G. Hodge 15 Mr. H. Sotheran 25 Earl of Warwick
6 Mr. J. Toovey 16 Mr. Westell 26 Mr. Molini
7 Mr. B. Quaritch 17 Mr. Walford 27 Mr. H. Stevens
8 Mr. G. J. Ellis 18 Henry 28 Mr. F. Locker-Sampson
9 Mr. J. Roche 19 Mr. Dobell 29 Mr. E. Walford
10 Mr. Reeves 20 Mr. Robson

[Illustration: BOOK SALE AT SOTHEBY'S AUCTION ROOMS.

FROM THE ORIGINAL WASH DRAWING BY H.M. PAGET IN
POSSESSION OF MESS^RS SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, LONDON.

CARL HENTSCHEL PH. SC.]

PREFACE

SEVERAL monographs by contemporary scholars on the inexhaustible theme
of Book-Collecting have made their appearance during the last twenty
years. All such undertakings have more or less their independent value
and merit from the fact that each is apt to reflect and preserve the
special