“How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold
The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!”
Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 137, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
John Ferriar: Gold
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“Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.”
Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 65, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.”
Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 6, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).