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De libris : prose & verse / by Austin Dobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.
- Greenaway, Kate.
- Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920.
- Thomson, Hugh.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Books and reading--Anecdotes.
- Books and reading.
- Book industries and trade--Anecdotes.
- Book industries and trade.
- Book industries and trade--Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 232 pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, 1908 (Syracuse, N.Y. : Mason-Henry Press)
- Contents:
- Prologue
- On some books and their associations
- An epistle to an editor
- Bramston's "Man of taste"
- The passionate printer to his love
- M. Rouquet on the arts
- The friend of humanity and the rhymer
- The parent's assistant
- A pleasant invective against printing
- Two modern book illustrators: I. Kate Greenaway
- A song of the Greenaway child
- Two modern book illustrators: II. Mr. Hugh Thomson
- Horatian ode on the tercentenary of "Don Quixote"
- The books of Samuel Rogers
- Pepys' "Diary"
- A French critic on Bath
- A welcome from the "Johnson club"
- Thackeray's "Esmond"
- A Miltonic exercise
- Fresh facts about Fielding
- The happy printer
- Cross readings
- and Caleb Whitefoord
- The last proof.
- Notes:
- Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Kate Greenaway.
- Partly reprinted from various sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921. De libris.
- OCLC:
- 191600
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