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. 1819 Excerpt: ...once meeting casually in Rotterdam, and travelling together over most part of Holland in the Treckschuyt--and, indeed, this circumstance has been expressly alluded to by W in one of his poems. Here W commonly spends one or two hours every week he is in Edinburgh, turning over, in company with his young friend, all the ...
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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. 1819 Excerpt: ...once meeting casually in Rotterdam, and travelling together over most part of Holland in the Treckschuyt--and, indeed, this circumstance has been expressly alluded to by W in one of his poems. Here W commonly spends one or two hours every week he is in Edinburgh, turning over, in company with his young friend, all the Alduses, and El/evirs, and Wynkin de Wordes, and Caxtons in the collection, nor does he often leave the shop, without being tempted to take some little specimen of its treasures home with him. I also, although my days of bibliomania are long since over, have been occasionally induced to transgress my self-denying rule. I have picked up various curious things at a pretty cheap rate--and one book in particular, of which I shall beg your acceptance when we meet; but at present I won't tell you-what it is. David Laing is still a very young man; but W tells me, (and so far as I have had occasion to see, he is quite correct in doing so, ) that he possesses a truly wonderful degree of skill and knowledge in almost all departments of bibliography. Since Lunn's death, he says, he does not think there is any of the booksellers in London superior to him in this way, and he often advises him to transfer the shop and all its treasures thither. But I suppose Mr Laing has very good reasons not to be in a hurry in adopting any such advice. He publishes a catalogue almost every year, and thus carries on a very extensive trade with all parts of the island. Besides, miserable as is the general condition of old learning in Scotland, there is still, I suppose, abundant occasion for one bookseller of this kind; and, I believe, he has no rival in the whole country. For ray part, if I lived in Edinburgh, I would go to his shop every now and then, were it only to be pu...
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Add this copy of Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 2 to cart. $59.48, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
