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"The essays ... have, for the most part, already appeared in an American edition (Combes, New York, 1886)"; reprinted in part from various periodicals

Elzevirs. Ballade of the real and ideal.--Curiosities of parish registers.--The Rowfant books.--To F.L.--Some Japanese bogie-books.--Ghosts in the library.-- Literary forgeries.--Bibliomania in France.--Old French title-pages.--A bookman's purgatory.--Ballade of the unattainable.--Lady book-lovers

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