There are many zealous bibliophiles who belong to two or three book clubs at once, finding it interesting to collect and compare the works produced by the several clubs.
Fortunate, indeed, are the bibliophiles who have passed unscathed into the category of "dead ones.
We cannot name or classify the bibliophiles of the eighteenth century.
The son of the great Admiral and Donna Beatrix Enriquez was one of the most celebrated bibliophiles in Europe.
This period was marked by the rivalry between bibliophiles of high rank and great wealth, whose Homeric contests have been worthily described by Dibdin in his history of the Bibliomania.
Le Roux de Lincy has compiled a long and interesting list of the French bibliophiles who preceded the age of Grolier.
The principal bibliophiles in Germany were the wealthy Fuggers of Augsburg, of whom Charles V.
This rococo plate is reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 76.
Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” published by him in 1894, is a work of considerable research and of much utility to the collectors of French book-plates.
This desire to raise oneself a rung or two on the social ladder, to which even sensible bibliophiles appear to have succumbed, is no new thing.
To name three or four of the most beautiful and most famous of these fair bibliophileswill suffice.
This design is also reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 96.
This plate is reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 110.
This interesting plate is reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” p.
But perchance you are already numbered among the elect, one of those magi among bibliophiles who are at once the despair of the booksellers and the wise men of their generation?
Bibliophiles are born, not made, and it were foolish to expect that every bookbinder has the love of books at heart.
But besides all this, they robbed them of that which those poor monkish bibliophiles loved more than all.
Not only did the bibliophiles of old exercise the utmost care in the preservation of their darling books, but the religious basis of their education and learning prompted them to supplicate the blessing of God upon their goodly tomes.
The monkish bibliophiles of his church received from him a precious gift of about 40 volumes, containing among other valuable books Prosper, Pompeii, Tertullian, and a great Bible in two volumes.
But I must not dwell longer on the monastic bibliophiles of Evesham, other libraries and bookworms call for some notice from my pen.
These ladies were only bibliophiles by accident, and were devoted, in the first place, to pleasure, piety, or ambition.
List of specimens of cards published by the Society of Bibliophiles Français, Appendix, No.
Bonnardot goes on from the above, very pointed remarks, to describe various operations of rebinding, with an idea of assisting bibliophiles who are too far from the centres of civilization to get in touch with a good binder.
Pixerecourt founder of the Societe des Bibliophiles Francais, but his whole library as well, until such time as his creditors had drawn off their legions and departed.
Whether any regulations are really necessary for the proper preservation of books old or new let the bibliophiles determine; but so long as they exist it is folly to ignore them.
Among the large number of French bibliophiles who now appeared on the scene, and competed with each other in the beauty of their bindings, one or two must necessarily be mentioned, since the modern collector envies or admires their taste.
That book collectors sometimes go to extreme lengths cannot be doubted by anyone who has spent much time in their company; but the English bibliophiles are not to be compared in this respect with their French brethren.
As regards the chapter on Modern Collectors, the author's object has been to deal with a representative selection of the bibliophiles of to-day.
A committee of the Grolier Club once made a marvellous collection of newspaper clippings about it, and a member of the Société des Bibliophiles Contemporains wrote a tragedy which was a parody of Æschylus.
Tom Payne's customers included all the bibliophiles of the period.
In an announcement 'To Book Lovers in all Parts of the World,' the Napoleon of bibliophiles makes the following statement: 'I am desirous of becoming recognised as their London agent by all men outside of England who want books.
The tenth Duke of Hamilton was one of the most distinguished bibliophiles of his time, and commenced purchasing whilst yet Marquis of Douglas.
Many of the earlier of these bibliophiles were unendowed with any keen appreciation for intellectual pursuits, and they collected pretty books just as they would collect pretty articles of feminine decoration.
But there are still treasures of literature concealed in private libraries, and Afghan, Persian, Armenian and Turkish bibliophiles still repair to Bokhara to buy rare books.
Piazza, the bibliophiles of Paris would have a poor output from which to select.
Henri Beraldi, the originator of the "Societe des Bibliophiles de Paris" and a publisher of note.
French National Library in Paris, no attempt was made to compare Gruget's faulty version with the originals until the Société des Bibliophiles Français entrusted this delicate task to M.
When the shop of a bookseller, with a promising catalogue which arrives over night, is not too far distant, bibliophiles have been known to rush to the spot in the grey morning, before the doors open.
Among the most interesting bibliophiles of the eighteenth century is Madame Du Barry.
The fantastic caprice of bibliophiles has revelled in the bibliography of these Dutch editions.
He bought and sold, during nearly twenty years, old and rare books, in a shop in Nassau street, New York, which was the resort of book collectors and bibliophiles without number.
It is said that the invention of half-binding originated among the economists of Germany; and some wealthy bibliophiles have stigmatized this style of dressing books as "genteel poverty.
The catalogue of books from the libraries or collections of celebrated bibliophiles &c 1895.
The talk turned, as it will always turn, when bibliophiles are present, upon books.
This dark corner of the old books attracted the bibliophiles of the district, who in days gone by had found treasure-trove there.
Yet the bibliophiles of the town, who frequented Paillot’s shop, never failed to explore the old-book corner, at least once a month.
Other rare volumes would more fitly adorn the collections of bibliophiles more learned, more ingenious, more elegant, than I.
There are many good bibliophiles who abide in the trenches, and never proclaim their loyalty by a book-plate.
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