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A Group Of Londoners
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Excerpt from A Group of LondonersIt is a charming characteristic of C. C. R. That he has always something new to show you usually an Elizabethan or Jacobean ms., but as often as not a well known book annotated by a not less well known reader - even S. T. C. Himself. Discoveries to you and me so epoch-making are the warp and woof of his life. By an indefinable law, the rarities gravitate to his already over-congested treasure - house. Once he hunted them: now they hunt him. As the years before h…
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  • Format: 21.6 x 27.9 x 0.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
  • Language: English
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It is a charming characteristic of C. C. R. That he has always something new to show you usually an Elizabethan or Jacobean ms., but as often as not a well known book annotated by a not less well known reader - even S. T. C. Himself. Discoveries to you and me so epoch-making are the warp and woof of his life. By an indefinable law, the rarities gravitate to his already over-congested treasure - house. Once he hunted them: now they hunt him. As the years before him diminish, the tasks set by his editorial ambition increase, and he grudges every minute spent away from his desk. The bookseller is gradually and steadily transmuting to author. To us, to - day, this is nothing; but how the wits at Will's Coffee House would have played with the idea, in those days when most of the jokes were at book sellers' expense!

London has many secondhand booksellers, but none like C. C. R. He alone 1s author and poet too. There is C. S., who has known all the scholars of the past fifty years and could make a volume of reminiscences of bookworms that should be a classic; yet he does not write, but trains canaries. There is N. O. S., to whom every goose is a swan; but he does not write. There is H. S. M., whose catalogues are in themselves treasures; but he does not write. C. C. R. Is unique.

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  • Author: E V Lucas
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  • ISBN-10: 1432694685
  • ISBN-13: 9781432694685
  • Format: 21.6 x 27.9 x 0.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
  • Language: English English

Excerpt from A Group of Londoners

It is a charming characteristic of C. C. R. That he has always something new to show you usually an Elizabethan or Jacobean ms., but as often as not a well known book annotated by a not less well known reader - even S. T. C. Himself. Discoveries to you and me so epoch-making are the warp and woof of his life. By an indefinable law, the rarities gravitate to his already over-congested treasure - house. Once he hunted them: now they hunt him. As the years before him diminish, the tasks set by his editorial ambition increase, and he grudges every minute spent away from his desk. The bookseller is gradually and steadily transmuting to author. To us, to - day, this is nothing; but how the wits at Will's Coffee House would have played with the idea, in those days when most of the jokes were at book sellers' expense!

London has many secondhand booksellers, but none like C. C. R. He alone 1s author and poet too. There is C. S., who has known all the scholars of the past fifty years and could make a volume of reminiscences of bookworms that should be a classic; yet he does not write, but trains canaries. There is N. O. S., to whom every goose is a swan; but he does not write. There is H. S. M., whose catalogues are in themselves treasures; but he does not write. C. C. R. Is unique.

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