Rariora Being Notes Of Some Of

Author : John Eliot Hodgkin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333554255
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Rariora, Vol. 1 written by John Eliot Hodgkin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rariora, Vol. 1: Being Notes of Some of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Historical Documents, Medals, Engravings, Pottery, Etc;, Etc;, Collected (1858-1900) Having furnished each of the groups described in the following pages with a separate letter of introduction, I leave my friends to make acquaintance at an auspicious moment with one or more as they may incline. In conclusion, I would ask the critical reader to deal as leniently as may be with the blemishes of various kinds which I am but too conscious he will discover in these volumes. Now remains only the pleasant duty of expressing my most grateful acknowledgments to those who have come to my help with advice or assistance. In a very especial manner my thanks are due and are hereby tendered to the Earl of Crawford, k.t., for the communication of his invaluable lists of known English Historical Broadsides, and to his librarian, Mr. J. P. Edmond, who has most kindly read and corrected my proofs of this section, to Mr. Robert Proctor, of the British Museum (to whose indispensable Index to the Early Printed Books in the em. Bibliographers are under the deepest obligation) for the sound advice and courteously imparted information from time to time received from him, to Mr. Hubert Hall, and Mr. Alfred E. Stamp, both of the Record Office, for their uniform urbanity in helping me to clear up difficulties connected with ms. Documents, to Messrs. Enschede en Zonen, the ancient and celebrated firm of typefounders in Haarlem, for the sacrifice of much valuable time devoted to an extensive correspondence on questions historical and typographical, and for the loan of objects and photographs illustrative of early typefounding processes, - to Mr. J. H. Hessels, m.a., for the communication of his views on the Invention and for much kindly criticism and suggestion, and lastly to the other friends, sans none nommer, who have in various ways aided me during the progress of the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.