In the Track of the Bookworm (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from In the Track of the BookwormHelena destroyed this scheme. It is curious to note that Napoleon despised Voltaire as heartily as Fred erick admired him, but gave Fielding and Le Sage places among his traveling companions, while the Bibliomaniac appears in his direction to his librarian I will have fine editions and handsome bindings. I am rich enough for that. The main thing that shakes one's confidence in the correctness of his lit crary taste is that he was fond Of Ossian. Julius Cmsar also formed a traveling library Of forty-four little volumes, contained in an oak case measuring 16 by 11 by 3 inches, covered with leather. The books are bound in white vellum, and consist Of history, philosophy, theology, and poetry, in Greek and Latin. The collector was Sir Julius Cesar, Of England, and this exquisite and unique collection is in the British Museum. The books were all printed between 1591 and 1616 w Y brought together fourteen volumes, the most valuable etion which had up to that time been ired by any man whose means and estate lay, as he Once said of himself, in his inkstand. Time fails me to speak of Erasmus, De Thou, Grotius, Goethe, Bodley, Hans Sloane, whose private library Of fifty thousand volumes was the beginning of that Of the British Museum the Cardinal Borromeo, who founded the Ambrosian Library at Milan with his Own forty thousand volumes, and the other great names entitled to the description Of Bibliomaniac.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.