No English bookman holds the unique position of Jean Grolier, and les femmes bibliophiles of England have been few and undistinguished compared with those of France.
The bookman can only regard such a work as a portfolio of plates with accompanying text, and if the plates as plates are only second rate, enthusiasm has nothing to build on.
Lack of means may make it easy for a bookman to resist the temptation to supplement the illustrations in a book with duplicates in proof or any like extravagances, but even then few books which have plates in them fail to bring trouble.
Suppose now that our bookman has decided to 'read up' the French Revolution, a subject to which we all turn at some period of our lives.
Whenever our book-hunter enters the library of a fellow-bookman he can gauge at once the depths of his feelings towards books, let alone the extent of his bibliographical knowledge.
For this our bookman uses single sheets of paper, eight inches by five, ruled with feint lines.
About a year later, coming home in the small hours from a dance, our bookman found a catalogue from this same bookseller on his table.
An early visit to the bookstall followed, but the little volume had gone; and it was not comforting to learn that it had been sold shortly after ourbookman saw it, to a man who 'knew a lot about that kind of books.
The city of the Knights may have been in the West Country or in Wales for aught our bookman cares; but until they can produce a likelier site and a better peron he will continue to take Sir Thomas's word for it.
For similar reasons our bookman prefers oxalic to sulphurous acid, but this too must never be used stronger than I have indicated.
In short, the bookman discovered that he had secured it himself while on a summer tour in Switzerland, and with the aid of a camel's-hair brush had succeeded in reducing it to a venerable state.
The bookmansympathised with him, but asked what was the proposed name.
It was rather late and our bookman was disinclined to seek a restaurant.
How the occupant discovered this fact our bookman does not remember; possibly the house is well known to antiquaries, and the occupier may have read about it or have been told by the previous tenant.
But the bookman pointed out to him that when he died and his collection was sold his family would benefit by some pounds through his indiscretion; for it was now known to all his friends as a genuine English specimen.
Yet there is many an aged building in Brittany where old books do still lie hid, as our bookman knows from the library of a friend who lives in Finisterre.
The bookman cannot content himself with a selected library.
The moment has now come to inform you plainly that a bookman is, amongst other things, a man who possesses many books.
I am not going to give a historical account of The Bookman here.
In what way could The Bookman serve the interests of American literature in which it was not already serving them?
She numbers among her ancestors admirals and deans," said The Bookman in 1912.
The lectures given on The Bookman Foundation will be published in book form by The Bookman in a handsome and uniform edition.
By the time of this book's publication or even sooner, I expect a full announcement will have been made; and for the correction of what I have stated I would refer the reader to The Bookman itself.
Mr. Farrar has turned The Bookman into a monthly brimming with his own creative enthusiasm," says Louis Untermeyer.
Those who read The Bookman will not need to be told that the articles by Robert Cortes Holliday on Writing as a Business: A Practical Guide for Authors, will constitute an exceptional book.
This was in answer to questions asked by The Bookman (London) of a number of English writers.
Simon Pure," who writes the monthly letter from London appearing in The Bookman (and whose identity is a well-known secret!
This story won the L100 prize offered by the Bookman for the best story for boys.
This story won the L100 prize in the Bookman competition.
This story won the L100 prize in the Bookmancompetition for the best story for children.
The bookman, like the poet, and a good many other people, is born and not made, and my grateful memory retains an illustration of the difference between a bookowner and a bookmanwhich I think is apropos.
He also said he was on the track of Bill Bidden, another famous trapper, and hoped to send me word that Bill was found, whose original value was sixpence, but for whom this bookman was now prepared to pay gold.
The subject of the book does not enter into the matter, and on subjects the bookman is very catholic, and has an orthodox horror of all sects.
Last week I saw such a case--the bookmanof the second generation in a certain shop where such unfortunates collect.
As the bookman grows old and many of his pleasures cease, he thanks God for one which grows the richer for the years and never fades.
It is the wife who in both cases is usually the sufferer and good angel, and under her happy influence the bookman will sometimes take the pledge, and for him, it is needless to say, there is only one cure.
It does not follow that one is a bookman because he has many books, for he may be a book huckster or his books may be those without which a gentleman's library is not complete.
From an article published in The Bookman one would believe the astonishing fact that Mr. Saltus made a practice of sitting "on a sort of baldachined throne dispersing cigarettes ten inches long and reading Chinese poetry.
What they did not reprint was a letter from me (in The Bookman also) denying the fabrications and giving the truth.
No English bookman holds the unique position of Jean Grolier, and 'les femmes bibliophiles' of England have been few and undistinguished compared with those of France.
However, no bookman could run as Marc did this morning; and so I know he is not wholly spoiled by the monks.
But I tell you now, as I told you two years ago when you talked of sending him to Quebec, that I'll have no bookman for a nephew.
She thanked thebookman for his loan and, with the child, went out.
But those whistles," the bookman said, "they stop the handworkman too.
The bookman smiled his thanks while he followed the craftsman's scrutiny of the pages.
This story won the L100 prize In the Bookman competition.
This story won the L100 prize for the best children's story in the Bookman competition.
The story won the L100 prize offered by the Bookman for the best story for boys.
