The Book Lovers' Anthology

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ue of Books; the very titles of which run the rounds of the whole world, visible and invisible; geographies-biographies- histories-loves-hates-joys-sorrows-cookeries-sciences-fashion-and eternity! We speak on this subject from the most literal experience; for often and often have w

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San Lorenzo

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xicon finely bound in c

een a foolish sacrifice of coin to sentiment. I love that book for its looks and behaviour. None of your 'half-calf' economies in that volume, sir! And see how it lies open anywhere! There isn't a book in my library that has such a generous way of laying its treasures before you. From Alpha to Omega, calm, assured rest at any page that your choice or accident may light on. No l

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I must sell

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t, Aurora.'

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such beggared

my Pro

das, Wolff, sh

such a royal

chief-poet,

ove, 'The hou

cream, as rich

asts, the broad

their spondaic p

lucent margin

bastards. Wol

liad fell ou

tous concourse

much, too, fo

wning. Au

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lomon Maimon; which, as he could easily slip it into his pocket, he took from its place, and entered the shop to pay for, expecting to see behind the counter a grimy personage showing that nonchalance about sales which seems to belong universally to the second-hand book-business. In most other trades you find generous men who are anxious to sell you their wares for your own welfare; but even a Jew will not urge Simson's E

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oceedings of the rest, that they have wished themselves of some other calling. The printers' mystery is ingenious, painful, and profitable: the book-binders' necessary; the clasp-makers' useful. And indeed, the retailer of books, commonly called a bookseller, is a trade, which, being well governed and limited within certain bounds, might become somewhat serviceable to the rest. But as it is now, for the most part abused, the bookseller hath not only made the printer, the binder, and the clasp-maker

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find your

unexplored

he prudent

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me in the

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pass that dan

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w a conjure

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our novel

young and

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turn a pag

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against th

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h the Elephant

our money,

on man to

u ne'er can

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s than upholsterers, who sell sets or bodies of arts and sciences for furniture; and the purchasers, for I am very sure they are not readers, buy only in that view. I never thought

even if you never open them or re

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must strike the

must here and

ense be sung

n moving nu

pages with m

orous songs too

reader with a

nterfere, who

madness of

use that neve

scandal, to be

patience with

piece, but ver

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sweet lays at

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shall raise his

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in his learn

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monious Muse wi

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