A Handy-book about booksJ. Wilson, 1870 - 217 pages |
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Page 123 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God (the Koran), they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 124 - Embossed calico was also introduced about " the same period by Mr. De La Rue. Hydraulic presses instead " of the old wooden screw presses ; Wilson's cutting machines, " which superseded the old plough ; the cutting tables with " shears invented by Mr. Warren De La Rue, and now applied to " squaring and cutting millboards for...
Page 123 - This account may or may not be true, but at all events the library was dispersed, if not destroyed ; it ceased to exist as a public institution. The library of the British Museum contains upwards of 800,000 volumes, exclusive of manuscripts. The sums paid for certain books would appear to the soberminded incredible, if they were not well authenticated.
Page 16 - The English, Scotch and Irish historical libraries. Giving a short view and character of most of our historians, either in print or manuscript. With an account of our records, law-books, coins, and other matters, serviceable to the undertakers of a general history of England.
Page 46 - ... and draw it gently over both sides of the paper, which must be carefully kept warm. This operation must be repeated as many times as the quantity of the fat body imbibed by the paper, or the thickness of the paper, may render necessary.
Page 181 - Authors, chiefly of the Lighter Literature of the XlXth Century, who have written under assumed names ; and to Literary Forgers, Impostors, Plagiarists, and Imitators.
Page 150 - Undeviginti, ) Viginti, Triginta, Quadraginta, Quinquaginta, Sexaginta, Septuaginta, Octoginta, Nonaginta, Centum, Ducenti, ae, a, Trecenti, ae, a, Quadringenti, ae, a, Quingenti, ae. a, Sexcenti, ae, a, Septingenti, ae, a...
Page 155 - Clerk, upon issuing such forms to any person shall enter the name of the person to whom issued, the date of such issuance and the number of...
Page 140 - It is, nevertheless, so essential that a knowledge of the meaning of the marks used and understood by printers for this purpose is necessary to all who edit their own works. It is not out of place, therefore, in a work like the present, to offer a few remarks on the subject : In the first place, much trouble may be saved at the outset by a careful preparation of the manuscript copy, which should be legibly written and accurately punctuated. Some author's manuscript is so minute that the compositors...
Page 141 - Where a word is to be changed from small letters to capitals, draw three lines under it, and write caps, in the margin. 1. The substitution of a capital for a small letter. 2. The marks for turned commas, which designate extracts or quotations.