Coleman, Oliver · New York, Fox Duffield & Company · leaf 75
when he built or bought a domicile to set aside therein a roomdevoted to his books and to them alone. Our old friend, Samuel Pepys,as he climbed up the ladder of the world, developed, as we know, a lovingwish for tomes on subjects manifold, and so we read, minutely chronicled,of the /setting in… … It was the custom for the very erudite only to have such corners intheir houses. It is but recently that a curious development has been made manifest, inwhich each house of rich or poor alike must have its library. The reasonsmay be dual for this change. One, that the making and the reading ofbooks…
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