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    ' •' ' ' r ' ' ¦ ' Itictrooyccttoc lirincui: COMPANION TO THE LOVER OF OLD BOOKS.

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    ' •' ' ' R ' ' ¦ ' Itictrooyccttoc Lirincui: Companion To The Lover Of Old Books.

    ' ' ' ' r ' ' ¦ ' Itictrooyccttoc lirincui : COMPANION TO THE LOVER OF OLD BOOKS .

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    << Old wood to burn , old wine to drink , old friends to converse with , and old books to read , "— Alfonzo , King of Arragon .

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    ,. N < j . 1 . Old Books and Bookshops—Randolph ' s Orchardrobbing of the Fairies .

    Desirous that everybody who Msefties to love them should ibVe old books as we do , and buy as ihany of them as we fain t ^ ptild , and ^ love the old book-Sellers , and the cheap book-£ hops , and book-shops of all softs , j ^ hete the books are good

    ^ nd'the bookseller worthy of jsellinff them ( we love to repeat tne word , like proper lovers ) , we liereDy commence a series of articles , in which we propose tto be as easy and ad libitum on tthe subject , as if we were

    poking about the shelves of a curi-< ous library with our friend the ireader , and talking of kny book , part of a book , or anything [ about a book , that came pleasantly in our way .

    No bibliomaniac c ^ u have aa greater regard than we haye ffor the very outside of a good tbook ; and some might , profit fcby that which we have for the [ inside . Nor could the comfortable old King of Arragon , nor [ DrDibdin himself , feel cosier

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    in an old Gothic library , with the old fire at his feet , the old wine ^ it the sid e 6 f him , and the old books all round . " Old /' like " book / ' is a fine wtird to repeat . We still find ourselves

    halting as instinctively at the humblest , or even the most familiar bookstall , as we Us ^ d to db when just fresh from school . In Vain have we got cold i&et at it , shivering-, witid-beat ^ n sid ^ fe , and

    black-fingered gloves . The dusty old siren still delays us , charming with immortal beauty inside her homely attire , and singing songs of old poets * We still find ourselves diving even

    into the sixpenny or threepenny 4 t box , " in spite of eternal disappointment , and running over whole windows of books , which we saw but three days before for

    the twentieth time , and of which we could repeat by heart a good third of the titles . Nothing disconcerts us but absolute dirt 9 or an ill-tempered

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/66/