This churchman of the first half of the {156} Thirteenth Century seems evidently to deserve a prominent place among the bookmen of all times.
It may be worth noticing that there were several smaller collections in the churches, due to the industry of bookmen whose names have been forgotten.
We shall take Budæus as our first example of the French bookmen in the period that followed the invention of printing.
The Père Jacob in his treatise upon famous libraries had some personal anecdote to record about the bookmen of each place that he visited.
With this slight anecdote I would in passing pay the tribute of bookmen to the chief hunter of big game in our day.
The printers and bookmen of this period were not distinguished by much originality, or by delicate artistic taste, but they were men of considerable enterprise, and their interest in their books was great and genuine.
In this letter he speaks of the great light which he thinks learning will receive from the new kind of bookmen whom Germany, like another Trojan Horse, has poured forth.
It is thus that legends grow, and it is not difficult to imagine Haarlem bookmen picking up ideas out of colophons in old books and asking the "respectable bookbinder of great age" whether it was not thus and thus that things happened.
Altogether, Day is a man of whom English bookmen may well be proud.
As a matter of fact, bookmen are more inclined to make beauty of form a secondary consideration to which, as to age and rarity, they pay attention, but without adopting it as the basis of their collection.
Aram, gently shaking his head, "it is a hard life we bookmen lead.
But these bookmenare not often heroes," remarked Ellinor, laughing.
Now, bookmen are capable of understanding things about books which cannot be put into words; they are not like mere subscribers to circulating libraries; for them a book is not just a book--it is a book.
If these lines should happen to catch the eye of any persons not bookmen, such persons may imagine that I am writing nonsense; but I trust that the bookmen will comprehend me.
Even for one so prone to hate both books and bookmen there was always the wind on the heath, the gypsy encampment, the now famous 'broad,' not then the haunt of innumerable trippers.
His criticism of books is of the best, and his friendships with bookmen are among the most interesting in literary history.
True; but I have also heard that he likes bookmen and scholars--is wise and temperate, and much is yet hoped from him in Italy!
I think I have heard bookmen say (you know, Signor Pandulfo, we ought all to be bookmen now!
Even for one so prone to hate both books and bookmen there was always the wind on the heath, the gypsy encampment, the now famous “broad,” not then the haunt of innumerable trippers.
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