White, Gleeson, 1851-1898, Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Carré, Jean, Singer, Hans Wolfgang, b. 1867, Schölermann, Wilhelm, 1865-1923, Khnopff, Fernand, 1858-1921 · [London : The Studio · leaf 83
BY BRACQUEMOXD shall register its owners degree of book-lovingcapacity; and the following axiom a la Balzac maythereon be formulated : The merit of a bibliophileis in an inverse ratio to the size of his book-plate.Evidently this paradox has vigorous supportersamong those dour bibliojihiles of… … read. I once invented a name for people of thissort— Biblioscopes, or those who look only onthe outside of their books, regardful merely of theirmaterial parts and caring nothing for the moral,the Ksthetic, qualities they contain. The true book-lover is not the mummifiedbibliophile who hesitates to…
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