The Book-Collector - Paperback

by William Carew Hazlitt (Author)

We must, however, in justice to this branch of the topic and to our readers, refrain from further pursuit of the discussion of it, as its adequate treatment would absorb a monograph to the full extent as ample as the present, and such a Manual is in point of fact a desideratum-one, too, which the improved state of bibliographical knowledge would assist in rendering much more satisfactory than was formerly possible.