"Bookselling" Quotes from Famous Books
... parts by the first four letters of the alphabet. In the fourth, under D. 18, there is a chapter entitled "Des Libraires Appretiateurs, Jurez et Enlumineurs," which contains much interesting matter relating to the early history of bookselling.[65] These ancient statutes, collected and printed by the University in the year 1652,[66] made at various times, and ranging between the years 1275 and 1403, give us a ... — Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather
... it was a bookselling, back-shop, paltry proceeding.... I have written to him as he never was written to before by an author, I'll ... — My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli |