Excerpt from Bits From an Old Book Shop Buying and selling old books is a most delightful occupation. Let poets sing of the pleasures of hope, the pleasures of the imagination, the pleasures of memory, or essayists write of the pleasures of litera ture, 'tis mine to praise the pleasures of bookselling. The bookseller lives in a bygone world. He is daily in close communion with the good and wise of all ages; he has Shake speare, Milton, Dante, Homer, as his com panions, and he is ever and anon coming across some rare ...
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Excerpt from Bits From an Old Book Shop Buying and selling old books is a most delightful occupation. Let poets sing of the pleasures of hope, the pleasures of the imagination, the pleasures of memory, or essayists write of the pleasures of litera ture, 'tis mine to praise the pleasures of bookselling. The bookseller lives in a bygone world. He is daily in close communion with the good and wise of all ages; he has Shake speare, Milton, Dante, Homer, as his com panions, and he is ever and anon coming across some rare treasure, and being introduced to new friends. 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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