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Excerpt from The Book-Collector: A General Survey of the Pursuit and of Those Who Have Engaged in It at Home and Abroad From the Earliest Period to the Present Time; With an Account of Public and Private Libraries and Anecdotes of Their Founders or Owners and Remarks on Bookbinding and O
My collections insensibly assumed the proportions of the volume now submitted to the public; and in the process of seeing the sheets through the press certain supplementary Notes suggested themselves, and form an Appendix. It has been my endeavour to render the Index as complete a clue as possible to the whole of the matter within the covers.
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