Historical and other Studies of Collectors and Collecting

W. ROBERTS

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PREFACE.

INTRODUCTION.

EARLY BOOK-HUNTING.

BOOK-HUNTING AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING. I.

FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW. I.

BOOK-AUCTIONS AND SALES. I.

BOOKSTALLS AND BOOKSTALLING.

SOME BOOK-HUNTING LOCALITIES. LITTLE BRITAIN AND MOORFIELDS.

WOMEN AS BOOK-COLLECTORS.

BOOK THIEVES, BORROWERS, AND KNOCK-OUTS.

SOME HUMOURS OF BOOK-CATALOGUES.

SOME MODERN COLLECTORS.

INDEX.

THE BOOK-HUNTER IN PARIS. BEING Studies Among the Bookstalls of

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