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by Andrew Lang

Advice for book collectors of 1881: what to look for, what to pay, how to keep books from damp, worms and borrowers. Lang wrote with real affection and a certain alarm. A chapter on illustrated books is by his friend Austin Dobson.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 2 hr 30 min

Where to find it

On the Archive shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2018. In the public domain in the United States.