. Books and bookmen ... a popular delusion that all Elzevirs are pearlsof considerable price. When a man is firstsmitten with the pleasant fever of book-collect-ing, it is for Elzevirs that he searches. At firsthe thinks himself in amazing luck. In Book-sellers Row and in Castle Street he picks up,for a shilling or two, Elzevirs, real or the beginner, any book with a sphere on thetitle-page is an Elzevir. For the beginnersinstruction, two copies of spheres are printed 4 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. here. The first is a sphere, an ill-cut, ill-drawn sphere, which is not Elzevirian at
. Books and bookmen ... a popular delusion that all Elzevirs are pearlsof considerable price. When a man is firstsmitten with the pleasant fever of book-collect-ing, it is for Elzevirs that he searches. At firsthe thinks himself in amazing luck. In Book-sellers Row and in Castle Street he picks up,for a shilling or two, Elzevirs, real or the beginner, any book with a sphere on thetitle-page is an Elzevir. For the beginnersinstruction, two copies of spheres are printed 4 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. here. The first is a sphere, an ill-cut, ill-drawn sphere, which is not Elzevirian at mark was used in the seventeenth centuryby many other booksellers and printers. Thesecond, on the other hand, is a true Elzeviriansphere, from a play of Molieres, printed in the comparatively neat drawing of thesecond sphere, and be not led away after spuriousimitations. Beware, too, of the vulgar error of fancyingthat little duodecimos with the mark of the foxand the bees nest, and the motto Quaerendo,come
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