AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT--THE LIBRARY OF THE MEMNONIUM--THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY--GREECE AND ROME--MONASTIC MANUSCRIPTS--THE DISCOVERY OF PRINTING--THE BOOK HUNTERS OF THE PAST--THE BOOK HUNTERS OF TO-DAY--BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AIDS. The Bibliophile, as he is somewhat pedantically termed, probably dates his existence from the time when books began to be multiplied in sufficient quantities to render the acquisition of duplicate copies by the public a matter of possibility, but his opportunities of amassing a large number of volumes can hardly be said to have arisen until many years after the invention of printing.…
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