Old and Rare Books: An Elementary Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea, on March 2nd, 1885 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs there, I remember in particular, which must have been of some old and valuable edition, though of what, I have not the faintest notion, being then innocent of all such subtleties but now it is a standing regret with me that I never carried off that book while it was in my power, even though I had had to impose on my stepfather a dummy volume in its place. As it began, so it continued; and, to-night, I am a living instance of the terrible depravity of moral purpose to which the bibliomaniac is apt to come, and of the yet more terrible boredom which he is capable of inflicting on an audience whom he can once get by the ear.

But this is no time for reminiscence for l have to traverse a subject of immense extent, and the compass of an hour is all too narrow even to skim it in the most casual way. And I must ask your forbearance while I trouble you at first with a little semi-history, which is probably familiar to many of you already.

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