A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and Reminiscences Concerning Rare, Curious, and Valuable Books |
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... copies in the French Royal Library are on vellum , as also the Hon . T. Grenville's copy , purchased recently at the sale of the M'Carthy Library . Pfalmorum Codex , Latine . - Folio . Moguntiæ . BIBLIOMANIAC's LIBRARY . 3 PAGE.
... copies in the French Royal Library are on vellum , as also the Hon . T. Grenville's copy , purchased recently at the sale of the M'Carthy Library . Pfalmorum Codex , Latine . - Folio . Moguntiæ . BIBLIOMANIAC's LIBRARY . 3 PAGE.
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... purchased by its present possessor , at the sale of the M'Carthy Library . At the sale of Dr. Mead's Collection , 1754 and 1755 , a copy was sold for 45l . 18s . and purchased for the King of France , who sent over a commission of 150l ...
... purchased by its present possessor , at the sale of the M'Carthy Library . At the sale of Dr. Mead's Collection , 1754 and 1755 , a copy was sold for 45l . 18s . and purchased for the King of France , who sent over a commission of 150l ...
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... purchased from the Roxburghe Collection for 10607. 18s . which originally belonged to Elizabeth Gray , Queen of Edward the Fourth . A copy sold in West's Sale , 1773 , for 327. 11s . an im- perfect copy sold at Lloyd's Sale in 1816 ...
... purchased from the Roxburghe Collection for 10607. 18s . which originally belonged to Elizabeth Gray , Queen of Edward the Fourth . A copy sold in West's Sale , 1773 , for 327. 11s . an im- perfect copy sold at Lloyd's Sale in 1816 ...
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... purchased by G. Hibbert , Esq . for the sum of sixteen thousand one hundred francs , and now enriches his Library at Clapham , Surrey , a treasure in itself . A Goodly Prymer in Englyshe , newly corrected and printed with certayne Godly ...
... purchased by G. Hibbert , Esq . for the sum of sixteen thousand one hundred francs , and now enriches his Library at Clapham , Surrey , a treasure in itself . A Goodly Prymer in Englyshe , newly corrected and printed with certayne Godly ...
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... purchased by Mr. Malone , at Dr. Wright's Sale in 1787 , for 167. 16s .; the other purchased by Mr. Reed for 1s . 6d . and presented by him in Exchange to G. A. Steevens BIBLIOMANIAC's LIBRARY . ANIAC 21.
... purchased by Mr. Malone , at Dr. Wright's Sale in 1787 , for 167. 16s .; the other purchased by Mr. Reed for 1s . 6d . and presented by him in Exchange to G. A. Steevens BIBLIOMANIAC's LIBRARY . ANIAC 21.
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Page 82 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 92 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 65 - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Page 33 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 29 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
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Page 70 - They are full of spirit and poetry; as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter: they were written at the university when he was about twenty-three years old, and in queen Elizabeth's time.