Books and Bookmen 1.0

Books and Bookmen - Books and Bookmenby Andrew LangContentsTo the Viscountess WolseleyPrefaceElzevir

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Books and Bookmenby Andrew Lang
　　Contents:
　　To the Viscountess WolseleyPrefaceElzevirsBallade of the Real and IdealCuriosities of Parish RegistersThe Rowfant BooksTo F. L.Some Japanese Bogie-booksGhosts in the LibraryLiterary ForgeriesBibliomania in FranceOld French Title-pagesA Bookman's PurgatoryBallade of the UnattainableLady Book-lovers
　　TO THE VISCOUNTESS WOLSELEY
　　Madame, it is no modish thing,The bookman's tribute that I bring;A talk of antiquaries grey,Dust unto dust this many a day,Gossip of texts and bindings old,Of faded type, and tarnish'd gold!
　　Can ladies care for this to-doWith Payne, Derome, and Padeloup?Can they resign the rout, the ball,For lonely joys of shelf and stall?
　　The critic thus, serenely wise;But you can read with other eyes,Whose books and bindings treasured are'Midst mingled spoils of peace and war;Shields from the fights the Mahdi lost,And trinkets from the Golden Coast,And many things divinely doneBy Chippendale and Sheraton,And trophies of Egyptian deeds,And fans, and plates, and Aggrey beads,Pomander boxes, assegais,And sword-hilts worn in Marlbro's days.
　　In this pell-mell of old and new,Of war and peace, my essays, too,For long in serials tempest-tost,Are landed now, and are not lost:Nay, on your shelf secure they lie,As in the amber sleeps the fly.'Tis true, they are not "rich nor rare;"Enough, for me, that they are--there!

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