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Title: The Book-Hunter at Home

Author: P. B. M. Allan

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THE BOOK-HUNTER AT HOME.

_Of this edition 500 copies have been printed, and 50 upon fine paper._

[Illustration: THE BOOK-HUNTER AT HOME (JAN SIX, BY REMBRANDT)]

THE BOOK-HUNTER AT HOME

BY P. B. M. ALLAN

THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED

[Illustration]

LONDON
PHILIP ALLAN & CO.
QUALITY COURT, CHANCERY LANE

_First Edition_--1920

_Second Edition_--1922

PRINTED BY WHITEHEAD BROTHERS, WOLVERHAMPTON.

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY

TO THE HONOURABLE AND VERTUOUS LADY MISTRESS E. K. A.

MADAM,

It would be churlish indeed were I to send this book into the
world without some acknowledgment of the share which you have had
in its making. Indeed, I feel that you are chiefly responsible
for it: without your encouragement, your active help, your
patience with me at all times (at which I marvel constantly), it
would never have arrived at completion. Truly it is your name,
not mine, that should appear upon the title-page; for although
mine may have been the hand that penned the words, certain it is
that yours was the mind that guided my pen throughout. It is to
your sympathy, your judgment, your excellent taste, that I am
indebted for every good thing that I have penned; and where I
have put down aught that is trite or insipid, it is due to my
own natural obstinacy in refusing, or carelessness in neglecting,
to defer the matter to your better judgment. Thus it is only
right that whatever praise may be bestowed upon this book should
be accorded to you; my shoulders alone must bear the censure of
the discerning reader.

I am, Madam, your very dutiful,
and loving husband,