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Updated: June 29, 2025
They were part of someone’s personal library—had no bookplate, though." "And what was Stein’s story concerning them?" "An old prospector named Lutterfield found them in a trunk in some cave he located out in the desert country. He brought them in to trade for supplies." "Lutterfield," Rennie repeated thoughtfully. "Yes, that could be." "Trunk in a cave?" Herrera was skeptical.
The man who acts as Menage advises, in the aphorism which Garrick used as a motto on his bookplate, the man who reads a book instantly and promptly returns it, is the most pardonable borrower. But how few people do this! As a rule, the last thing the borrower thinks of is to read the book which he has secured.
If I were a rich man I should found a hospital for homeless aristocratic books, an institution similar in all essential particulars to the institution which is now operated at our national capital under the bequest of the late Mr. Cochrane. I was a young man when I adopted the bookplate which I am still using, and which will be found in all my books.
Piscatorem hominum ne te non, Sexte, putemus, Piscaris natum retibus ecce tuum." "Olim habuit Cypria sua tempera, tempora Mavors Olim habuit, sua nunc tempora Pallas habet." The other has the bookplate of the Baron de Warenghien. Colonel Stanley's copy sold for £11 lls. The book was printed at Basle, by Jean Oporin. See Clément, Bibl. Cur. Hist, et Crit., vii. 371.
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