Excursions in Libraria
Subtitle: being retrospective reviews and bibliographical notes
By: by G.H. Powell.
Publisher: Lawrence and Bullen
Published: 1895
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Books and reading; Rare books
Notes: MASS copy: Inscription on inside upper cover: "E. Radley"
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The philosophy of rarity [rev. and enl. from "A discourse of rare books" in Macmillan's magazine, July 1893]; title: A Gascon tragedy (14th cent.) [episode from Froissart relating to Gaston III Phebus, comte de Foix]; title: A shelf of old story books; title: The pirates' paradise (1740); title: A medley of memoirs; title: With Rabelais at Rome (1536); title: The wit of history [based on an article in Pall Mall magazine, Feb. 1895]; title: Index.