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Excerpt from Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Vol. 4 The value of books appears to depend chiefly upon three things - namely, their intrinsic literary, or artistic, worth; their scarcity; and lastly, but, I think, chiefly, the fashion Tor the time being, among book collectors. It is one of the humiliating facts about book collecting that, in so many cases, the real worth of a book, which should surely be the first consideration, seems to have less influence on its market value than has either its rarity, or fashion. The explanation of this fact I take to be that so many people still collect the books that other people want, rather than those they want themselves. Would such prices be obtained for specimens of early block-printed or Black Letter books, for "Editiones Principes " of the Greek and Latin authors, for a "Psalmomm Codex, " if only those who wanted to read the books in question wanted to have them? It is no less than a crime for some ignorant "nouveau riche" to outbid a learned scholar for a valuable book, for which perhaps he has been looking for years, simply that it may be put into a glass case, and pointed out to an admiring, though envious, circle of sycophants, as having been "bought from such and "such a noted library at such and such an exorbitant price." Would that the bookbuyer's first object were to acquire such books as he and his friends can read and understand! This brings me to my subject, and to my object in writing and issuing these Hints to collectors of Thackeray's works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Vol. 4
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