Books and Bookmen

By Lang, Andrew

Book Id: WPLBN0002827849
Format Type: PDF (eBook)
File Size: 8.14 mb
Reproduction Date: 1886

Title:	Books and Bookmen
Author:	Lang, Andrew
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature, Bibliomania
Collections:	History, Authors Community, Literature, Language
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Publisher:	Riverside Press

Member Page:	Historical Manuscripts Preservation
Citation APA MLA Chicago Lang, A. (n.d.). Books and Bookmen. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886).

Table of Contents
To the Viscountess Wolseley -- Preface -- Elzevirs -- Ballade of the Real and Ideal -- Curiosities of Parish Registers -- The Rowfant Books -- To F. L. -- Some Japanese Bogie-books -- Ghosts in the Library -- Literary Forgeries -- Bibliomania in France -- Old French Title-pages -- A Bookman's Purgatory -- Ballade of the Unattainable -- Lady Book-lovers.