 BIBLIOMANIAC. my pursuit, you know — eh — old books — rare books — I don't care what I give so as I can secure them — this is a tract of 1486 — seventeen pages originally — five only wanting — two damaged — got it for seventy-two pounds...  Gilbert Gurney - Pàgina 10per Theodore Edward Hook - 1836 - 231 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1841 - 754 pàgines
...Caxton — only one other copy extant — that in the British Museum.' — 'And what is it about 1' said I, innocently. — ' Why, I do not happen to know that,' said Hull. — ' Then why buy it V said I. — ' Buy !' exclaimed he, looking at me through his glass with an... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1841 - 710 pàgines
...pounds ten shillings — Caxton — only one other copy extant — that in the British Museum.' — ' And what is it about ? ' said I, innocently. — ' Why, I do not happen to know that,' said Hull. — ' Then why buy it ? said I. — ' Buy ! ' exclaimed he, looking at me through hk glass with an... | |
 | 1841 - 744 pàgines
...Caxton — only one other copy extant — that in the British Museum.' — 'And what is it about 1' said I, innocently. — ' Why, I do not happen to know that,' said Hull. — ' Then why buy it V said I. — ' Buy !' exclaimed he, looking at me through his glass with an... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby - 1856 - 410 pàgines
...seventy-two pounds ten shillings — Sa*ton — only one other copy extant — that in the British Museum." " And what is it about ? " said I, innocently. " Why, I do not happen to know that,'" said Hull (Hill.) " Then why buy it ? " said I. " Buy ! " tions and genealogies, still less to the classic productions... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1904 - 302 pàgines
...seventy-two pounds ten shillings — Caxton — only one other copy extant — that in the British Museum." " And what is it about ?" said I, innocently. " Why, I do not happen to know that," said Hull. " Then why buy it ?" said I. " Buy !" exclaimed he, looking at me through his glass with an expression... | |
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