Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected inthis text. For a complete list, please see the bottom ofthis document.
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THE BOOKLOVER AND HIS BOOKS
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From the Digestum Novum of Justinian, printed at Veniceby Jenson in 1477. The type page of which this is a reduction measures12-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. The initials in the original have been filled inby hand in red and blue.From the copy in the Library of Brown University
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THE BOOKLOVER AND
HIS BOOKS
BY
HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN, Litt.D.
LIBRARIAN OF BROWN UNIVERSITY
BOSTON
THE BOSTON BOOK COMPANY
1917
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Copyright, 1916,
By The Boston Book Company
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
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TO
THE AUTHORS AND THEIR PRINTERS
WHO HAVE GIVEN US
THE BOOKS THAT WE LOVE
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PREFATORY NOTE
HE following chapters were written during a series of years as oneaspect after another of the Book engaged the writer's attention. As theyare now brought together, the result is not a systematic treatise, butrather a succession of views of one many-sided subject. In consequencethere is considerable overlapping. The writer hopes, however, that thiswill be looked upon not as vain repetition but as a legitimatereinforcement of his underlying theme, the unity i