This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... c'est-a-dire, tout l'ouvrage entier; un seul volume perdu ou mutile emporte tout l'ouvrage. "S'il s'egare quelques uns de ces livres ainsi marque's, on prie ceux, entre les mains de qui ils seront, de les faire rendre a l'adresse ci-dessus." M. Cellier had another, and much better executed, Library Interior plate, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... c'est-a-dire, tout l'ouvrage entier; un seul volume perdu ou mutile emporte tout l'ouvrage. "S'il s'egare quelques uns de ces livres ainsi marque's, on prie ceux, entre les mains de qui ils seront, de les faire rendre a l'adresse ci-dessus." M. Cellier had another, and much better executed, Library Interior plate, probably intended for his own particular books, as it had not the above instructions to careless and destructive readers. As to quotations in praise of books, Mr. Mathew Dorey appears to have been somewhat greedy; he uses no less than three on his label: --"This Book belongs to MATHEW DOREY, Dubl1n. 'Everywhere have I sought peace and found it nowhere save in a corner with a book.'--Thomas a Kempis. 'He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.'--Isaac Barrow. 'By the aid of books we collect around us all things, all places, men and times. To be without books is the abyss of penury.'--J. Ruskin." For brevity and conciseness the instructions given on his Armorial book-plate by the late Rev. Mr. William Charles Cotton, Vicar of Frodsham, can scarcely be surpassed, "Borrow bravely, Keep carefully, Peruse patiently, Return righteously." In the lists of Dated plates the mottoes or quotations have been given wherever it was possible to copy them; as to the thousands to be found on non-dated plates, sufficient has been said to show that they merit collection and preservation in a work devoted to themselves. Materials will not be wanting to the enthusiast who takes up the scheme, for collectors are ever ready to assist in these labours. German and Swedish Bookplates, --I have been compelled to omit German and Swedish book-plates from the list of ...
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