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قراءة كتاب The Great Book-Collectors
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List of Illustrations
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| Portrait of Peiresc | Frontispiece | |
| (From an engraving by Claude Mellan.) | ||
| Initial Letter from the 'Gospels of St. Cuthbert | 18 | |
| Seal of Richard de Bury | 38 | |
| Portrait of the Duke of Bedford praying before St. George | 59 | |
| (From the Book of Hours commonly known as the 'Bedford Missal.') | ||
| Portrait of Magliabecchi | 74 | |
| (From an engraving in the British Museum.) | ||
| Binding executed for Queen Elizabeth | 112 | |
| (English jeweller's-work on a cover of red velvet. From a copy of 'Meditationum Christianarum Libellus,' Lyons, 1570, in the British Museum.) | ||
| Portrait of Sir Robert Cotton | 117 | |
| (From an engraving by R. White after C. Jonson.) | ||
| Portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley | 126 | |
| (From an engraving in the British Museum.) | ||
| Binding executed for Grolier | 141 | |
| (From a copy of Silius Italicus, Venice, 1523, in the British Museum.) | ||
| Portrait of De Thou | 168 | |
| (From an engraving by Morin, after L. Ferdinand.) | ||
CHAPTER I.
CLASSICAL.
In undertaking to write these few chapters on the lives of the book-collectors, we feel that we must move between lines that seem somewhat narrow, having regard to the possible range of the subject. We shall therefore avoid as much as possible the description of particular books, and shall endeavour to deal with the book-collector or book-hunter, as distinguished from the owner of good books, from librarians and specialists, from the merchant or broker of books and the book-glutton who wants all that he sees.
Guillaume Postel and his friends found time to discuss the merits of the authors before the Flood. Our own age neglects the libraries of Shem, and casts doubts on the antiquity of the Book of Enoch. But even in writing the briefest account of the great book-collectors, we are compelled to go back to somewhat remote times, and to say at least a few words about the ancient book-stories from the far East, from Greece and Rome, from Egypt and Pontus and Asia. We have seen the brick-libraries of Nineveh and the copies for the King at Babylon, and we have heard of the rolls of Ecbatana. All the world knows how Nehemiah 'founded a library,' and how the brave Maccabæus gathered again