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Queen Christina considered that she was justly entitled to the patronage of her subjects' works: and Marshal Rantzau, when writers were scarce in Denmark, brought out an anonymous work for the purpose of introducing a preface in which his fame as a book-collector was glorified.
David Ancillon is perhaps best known as the defender of Luther and Calvin. But according to Bayle he was an indefatigable book-collector, and notable for having set the fashion of buying books in the first edition.
Gray, Peter's College, Cambridge, 'Mr. Samuel Richardson, editor of Clarissa, two books, and 'Mr. Although the nagging spirit before referred to is to be deprecated, it is sometimes amusing to lose your temper with your own hobby. If a book-collector ever does this, he longs to silence whole libraries of bad authors.
Among the learned ladies of the sixteenth century we may choose Louise Labé, surnamed 'La Belle Cordière, who made a collection of a new kind, composed entirely of works in French, Spanish, and Italian, and Charlotte Guillard, a printer as well as a book-collector, who published at her own expense a volume of the Commentaries of St. Jerome.
We shall therefore avoid as much as possible the description of particular books, and shall endeavour to deal with the book-collector or book-hunter, as distinguished from the owner of good books, from librarians and specialists, from the merchant or broker of books and the book-glutton who wants all that he sees.
One of his patients, with whom he first travelled, then for a time resided, was a book-collector, and with him he learned much, chiefly from old-book-catalogues. With Lady Joan this learning, judiciously poured out, passed for a marvellous knowledge of books, and the country doctor began to assume in her eyes the proportions of a man of universal culture.
He closed the door on her, and turned to Mr. Pawle. "I'll trouble you for a pinch of that old snuff of yours, Pawle!" he said. "Um dear me! What extraordinary moments we do pass through! Viner, my dear fellow, you're a book-collector, I know. To er pass the time, show me some of your treasures."
If a young book-collector does but bear in mind the two bits of advice I have proffered him, he may safely be bidden godspeed and congratulated on his choice of a hobby, for it is, without a shadow of a doubt, the cheapest he could have chosen.
At this moment the Syrian waved his hand in the air with a gesture common to men of his race when displaying their own superior knowledge, as he said "What did I spend ten years in Rome for, if I do not know Serenus Samonicus? He is the greatest book-collector in the empire.
Beauclerk, he writes, 'seems never to have had his books examined or collated, otherwise he would have found out the imperfections. Malone was far too good a book-collector to suggest a third method of discovering a book's imperfections namely, reading it.
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