Excursions in Libraria (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Being Retrospective Reviews and Bibliographical Notes

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By George Herbert Powell

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Jan 17, 2012
Page Count
292 pages
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BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411456495

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ebook (Digital original)

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Not exclusively for bibliophiles, this kaleidoscopic 1896 gathering of essays and sketches on books, book-collecting, and literature includes “The Philosophy of Rarity,” “A Gascon Tragedy (14th Century),” “A Shelf of Old Story Books,” “The Pirates’ Paradise (1740),” “A Medley of Memoirs,” “With Rabelais at Rome (1536),” and “The Wit of History.”


George Herbert Powell

About the Author

George Herbert Powell (1856-1924) was an English scholar, tutor, and barrister. He wrote Animal Episodes and Studies in Sensation (1896); The Crown Prince’s First Lesson Book, or, Nursery Rhymes for the Times (1914); Occasional Rhymes and Reflections Upon Subjects Social,Literary, and Political (1892); and Dueling Stories of the Sixteenth Century from the French of Brantôme (1904).

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