A Handy-book about Books: For Book-lovers, Book-buyers, and Book-sellersJ. Wilson, 1870 - 217 pages Sections on bibliography, chronology, useful receipts, typographical gazetter, booksellers' directory, dictionary of terms, etc. |
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A Handy-book about Books: For Book-lovers, Book-buyers, and Book-sellers John Power Affichage du livre entier - 1870 |
A Handy-book about Books: For Book-lovers, Book-buyers, and Book-sellers John Power Affichage du livre entier - 1870 |
A Handy-book about Books: For Book-lovers, Book-buyers, and Book-sellers John Power Affichage du livre entier - 1870 |
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Page 125 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 162 - Chancellor, who, when Letters Patent or Charters were adjudged void, was the person who condemned or cancelled them. The terms cancellation, erasure, expunging or expunction, obliteration, elision, and deletion, — words each employed to denote a different method adopted to prevent faulty passages or minor errors from standing as parts of a composition, — having been frequently used indiscriminately one for another, the reader may not be displeased to be here reminded of their original significations....
Page 126 - Embossed calico was also introduced about " the same period by Mr. De La Rue. Hydraulic presses instead " of the old wooden screw presses ; Wilson's cutting machines, " which superseded the old plough ; the cutting tables with " shears invented by Mr. Warren De La Rue, and now applied to " squaring and cutting millboards for...
Page 188 - SHAKESPERIANA, a Catalogue of the Early Editions of Shakespeare's Plays, and of the Commentaries and other Publications illustrative of his works. By JO HALLIWELL. 8vo, cloth. 3s 1841 " Indispensable to everybody who wishes to carry on any inquiries connected with Shakespeare, or who may have a fancy for Shakesperian Bibliography."— Spectator.
Page 125 - ... (Gibbon, chap. li.) Gibbon has employed his ingenuity to discredit this account, which in itself appears by no means improbable. The library was, at all events, dispersed, if not destroyed ; it ceased to exist as a public institution. On this point see LA Wheatley'a paper " Was the Alexandrian Library burnt by the Mahometans?** (The Bibliographer, No.
Page 28 - Psalter, in Latin, on vellum — printed at Mentz, by Fust and Schoeffer, in 1457 ; the first book printed with a date, and the first example of printing in colours...
Page 16 - The English, Scotch and Irish historical libraries. Giving a short view and character of most of our historians, either in print or manuscript. With an account of our records, law-books, coins, and other matters, serviceable to the undertakers of a general history of England.
Page 189 - Authors, chiefly of the Lighter Literature of the XlXth Century, who have written under assumed names ; and to Literary Forgers, Impostors, Plagiarists, and Imitators.
Page 142 - It is, nevertheless, so essential that a knowledge of the meaning of the marks used and understood by printers for this purpose is necessary to all who edit their own works. It is not out of place, therefore, in a work like the present, to offer a few remarks on the subject : In the first place, much trouble may be saved at the outset by a careful preparation of the manuscript copy, which should be legibly written and accurately punctuated. Some author's manuscript is so minute that the compositors...
Page 143 - Where a word is to be changed from small letters to capitals, draw three lines under it, and write caps, in the margin. 1. The substitution of a capital for a small letter. 2. The marks for turned commas, which designate extracts or quotations.