Reminiscences of a Literary Life, Volume 2J. Major, 1836 - Bibliographical literature |
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Page 588
... containing the descrip- tions of such books ( and they are many ) which have been acquired subsequently to the original publica- tion . But it should be of the same size , and in the same beautifully executed stile of printing . It is ...
... containing the descrip- tions of such books ( and they are many ) which have been acquired subsequently to the original publica- tion . But it should be of the same size , and in the same beautifully executed stile of printing . It is ...
Page 651
... contain about FIFTEEN HUNDRED additions or IL- LUSTRATIONS , which may be thus classed : 450 proofs , for the most part on India paper , and before the letter , of the ordinary decorations and plates of the book ; some with variations ...
... contain about FIFTEEN HUNDRED additions or IL- LUSTRATIONS , which may be thus classed : 450 proofs , for the most part on India paper , and before the letter , of the ordinary decorations and plates of the book ; some with variations ...
Page 662
... contain all the earlier impressions of the plates . And yet , in many instances , so sound and artist - like was the workmanship of the engraver , that , with one plate - the portrait of Pisani , in vo- lume two - I presented a seven ...
... contain all the earlier impressions of the plates . And yet , in many instances , so sound and artist - like was the workmanship of the engraver , that , with one plate - the portrait of Pisani , in vo- lume two - I presented a seven ...
Page 688
... containing the finished prints , cancelled leaves , & c . , for the large paper copy , together with another beau- tiful Diane , for which please to accept my fresh and re- doubled thanks . I shall now have two of the prettiest copies ...
... containing the finished prints , cancelled leaves , & c . , for the large paper copy , together with another beau- tiful Diane , for which please to accept my fresh and re- doubled thanks . I shall now have two of the prettiest copies ...
Page 689
... containing the finished prints , cancelled leaves , & c . , for the large paper copy , together with another beau- tiful Diane , for which please to accept my fresh and re- doubled thanks . I shall now have two of the prettiest copies ...
... containing the finished prints , cancelled leaves , & c . , for the large paper copy , together with another beau- tiful Diane , for which please to accept my fresh and re- doubled thanks . I shall now have two of the prettiest copies ...
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Page 739 - So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : ' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read...
Page 559 - All things that love the sun are out of doors : The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops ; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist ; that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 811 - ... that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily; and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death.
Page 822 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Page 879 - Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY.
Page 736 - Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.
Page 752 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 599 - Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Page 806 - Lord, on the simple and ignorant, who have been led astray, and recall them to a sense of their duty : And to persons of all ranks and conditions in this country, vouchsafe such a measure of Thy grace, that, our hearts being...
Page 772 - JESUS hath now many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. He findeth many companions of His table, but few of His abstinence.