Excerpt from A Book About Authors: Reflections Recollections of a Book-Wright I had thought of modestly styling this a Book about Bookmakers; but that word has unworthy associa tions, and the Society of Authors licenses us all to take a higher title. One remembers the Rouen judge's dictum to Dumas When he scrupled to style himself a dramatist in the city of the great Corneille - Il-y-a des degr???s, M Dumas! And indeed What I have in mind in the following pages is that, Where they are not mere makers of books, great and ...
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Excerpt from A Book About Authors: Reflections Recollections of a Book-Wright I had thought of modestly styling this a Book about Bookmakers; but that word has unworthy associa tions, and the Society of Authors licenses us all to take a higher title. One remembers the Rouen judge's dictum to Dumas When he scrupled to style himself a dramatist in the city of the great Corneille - Il-y-a des degr???s, M Dumas! And indeed What I have in mind in the following pages is that, Where they are not mere makers of books, great and small authors differ from one another in degree rather than in kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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