William Carew Hazlitt

William Carew Hazlitt's Books(2)

The Confessions of a Collector

Literature

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Published in 1897, this autobiography of a bibliophile was praised by The New York Times as "entertaining" and "amusing." Hazlitt's self expression through book collecting shows him to be a man embracing of the flow and change of literature through the fifty years he collected.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

Modern

5.0

THE BOOK-LOVERS LIBRARY_ was first published in the following styles: No. 1.--Printed on antique paper, in cloth bevelled with rough edges,price 4s. 6d. No. 2.--Printed on hand-made paper, in Roxburgh, half morocco, withgilt top: 250 only are printed, for sale in England, price 7s. 6d. No. 3.--Large paper edition, on hand-made paper; of which 50 copiesonly are printed, and bound in Roxburgh, for sale in England, price L11s. There are a few sets left, and can be had on application to thePublisher.