Book Collecting
by J. Herbert Slater
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About this eBook
- Author
- Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert), 1854-1921
- Title
- Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Margo Romberg and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Book collecting
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38345
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38345
- Release Date
- December 19, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BOOK COLLECTING
- 2.J. H. SLATER — CONTENTS.
- 3.CHAPTER I. — AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT—THE LIBRARY OF THE MEMNONIUM—THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY—GREECE AND ROME—MONASTIC MANUSCRIPTS—THE DISCOVERY OF PRINTING—THE BOOK HUNTERS OF THE PAST—THE BOOK HUNTERS OF TO-DAY—BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AIDS.
- 4.CHAPTER II. — THE FIRST ENGLISH AUCTION SALE—FASHION IN BOOK COLLECTING—SPECIAL BOOKS OF REFERENCE RELATING TO PARTICULAR BRANCHES OF BIBLIOGRAPHY. — FOOTNOTES:
- 5.CHAPTER III. — PAPER-MAKING—DIFFERENT SIZES OF PAPER—DIFFERENT SIZES OF BOOKS—MEASUREMENTS WATER-MARKS—BOOKS TO CONSULT. — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.CHAPTER IV. — THE COLOPHON—TITLE-PAGE—THE FIRST BOOK WITH A DATE—COLLATING—ROMAN NOTATION—LATINISED NAMES OF PLACES, WITH THEIR MODERN EQUIVALENTS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.CHAPTER V. — THE REASONS WHICH MAKE A BOOK VALUABLE—SCARCITY— SUPPRESSED WORKS—SOME BOOKS WHICH HAVE BEEN BURNED BY THE HANGMAN—WORKS PRIVATELY SUPPRESSED—WORKS OF LIMITED ISSUE—TRANSACTIONS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES—DEFECTS—"UNCUT" WORKS—IMPERFECT COPIES—"MADE-UP" COPIES—FAC-SIMILE LEAVES—LAYING DOWN—BOOKS PUBLISHED IN PARTS—LARGE-PAPER COPIES.
- 8.CHAPTER VI. — THE RENOVATION OF BOOKS—DAMP—GREASE MARKS—SURFACE STAINS—BOOK WORMS AND OTHER PESTS.
- 9.CHAPTER VII. — THE ALDINE PRESS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.CHAPTER VIII. — THE ELZEVIR PRESS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.CHAPTER IX. — THE EARLY ENGLISH PRESSES.
- 12.CHAPTER X. — ON BINDINGS OLD AND NEW. — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.CHAPTER XI. — BOOKS TO BUY.
- 14.PRINCIPAL SECOND-HAND BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO PUBLISH CATALOGUES.
- 15.SPINK & SON, — DEALERS IN COINS AND MEDALS, — 2, GRACECHURCH STREET, CORNHILL, LONDON, E.C. — E. SUMNER'S
- 16.Naturalists' Stores, — 135 OXFORD ST., LONDON, W. — E. SUMNER, 135 Oxford Street, London, W.
- 17.E. SUMNER'S — Naturalists' Stores.
- 18.WATKINS & DONCASTER — Naturalists, — 36, STRAND, W.C. — LONDON.
- 19.JAMES GARDNER, — Manufacturer of all kinds of Entomological Apparatus, — 29, OXFORD STREET, — Dealer in Insects, Birds' Eggs, Skins. &c. — All Articles Guaranteed. — EXCHANGED IF NOT APPROVED OF. — Price Lists on Application. — 29, OXFORD STREET. — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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