The Book-Collector
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Book lovers interested in collecting, textual scholarship, and bibliography
- Scholars studying nineteenth-century British book culture and publishing history
- Readers with English reading ability who enjoy essays by men of letters about books
Not a good fit for
- Beginners seeking a modern practical guide to book collecting
- Readers who have difficulty reading English and need a Chinese translation
- General readers with no interest in the material culture of books
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and chapter titles first, then closely read the sections relevant to your own collecting interests and skim the rest.
- Take notes against basic bibliographical concepts as you read, and consult reference works for terminology on editions.
- Read it alongside essays on books by contemporaries to grasp the context of nineteenth-century British book-collecting culture.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
William Carew Hazlitt (1834–1913) was an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer, and a grandson of the famous essayist William Hazlitt. Called to the bar in 1861, he later turned to bibliographical research, compiled the Catalogue of the Huth Library, and wrote such works as Handbook to the Popular Literature of Great Britain, Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine, The Confessions of a Collector, The Book-Collector and Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters. Four of his works are held here, mostly classed under inspirational growth. Public information is limited, but his surviving books combine rigorous bibliographical scholarship with an essayist's easy discursiveness, ranging over book collecting, the history of food and old educational lore, and leaving a readable first-hand record of Victorian collecting culture and antiquarian study.
