...renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world. I never see these impostors but I long to strip them, to warm my ragged veterans in their spoils. " — Essays of Elia. almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing...

...digression from their themes as announced in the topic-sentences, pointing out such digression, if any. To be strong-backed and neat-bound is the desideratum...half-binding (with russia backs ever) is our costume. A Shakespeare, or a Milton (unless the first editions), it were mere foppery to trick out in gay apparel....

...renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world. I never see these impostors, but I long to strip them,...half-binding (with Russia backs ever) is our costume. A Shakespeare, or a Milton (unless the first editions), it were mere foppery to trick out in gay apparel....

...enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world. I never see these impostors, but 1 long to strip them, to warm my ragged veterans in...not dress a set of Magazines, for instance, in full suil. The dishabille, or half-binding (with Russia backs ever) is our costume. A Shakespeare, or a...

...renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world. I never see these impostors, but I long to strip them,...half-binding (with Russia backs ever) is our costume. A Shakespeare, or a Milton (unless the first editions), it were mere foppery to trick out in gay apparel....

...renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world. I never see these impostors, but I long to strip them,...upon all kinds of books indiscriminately. I would 43 not dress a set of Magazines, for instance, in full suit. The dishabille, or half-binding (with...

...renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world. I never see these impostors, but I long to strip them,...Magnificence comes after. This, when it can be afforded, js not to be lavished upon all kinds of books indiscriminately. I would not dress a set of Magazines,...

...cannot poison them or make them stronger than they are—but consider, he is a weakling, a flower. To be strong-backed and neat-bound is the desideratum...afforded, is not to be lavished upon all kinds of Book Bindings. c . c • c. n TU » , „ , books indiscriminately. I would not dress a set deshabille,...

...not — well ! let Lamb himself be our guide. " To be strong-backed and neat-bound is," he says, " the desideratum of a volume. Magnificence comes after....lavished upon all kinds of books indiscriminately. F . . . In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding . . . but where a book...

...instance —to comfortably re-clothe his shivering folios. " I never see these impostors," he confessed, " but I long to strip them, to warm my ragged veterans in their spoils." To Mr. Carew Hazlitt, all book-lovers are indebted for his untiring endeavour to provide us with a catalogue...