id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 44360 Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward) The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections .txt text/plain 96806 5673 79 Some years ago a very learned friend of mine published a book, and in I am aware that my friend, Dr. Johnson, once remarked that no man but a block-head writes a book except tell ourselves, we expect some day to read, the books written by men of How little the old man knew that this son, when the time came, would Twenty-five years ago, in London, early in my book-collecting days, I Pounds Forty Hut_." To me it was perfectly clear that Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi's copy of Johnson's Dictionary in two volumes folio was to It is like reading the not very funny book of an old-time comic opera Book-Collector." I had just given an old-time year's salary for a house in Great Queen Street, in London, in which Boswell lived when he Boswell's "Life of Johnson" was the dedication copy to Sir Joshua Boswell's "Life of Johnson" was the dedication copy to Sir Joshua ./cache/44360.txt ./txt/44360.txt