 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 498 páginas
...are certainly not those of an uneducated person. At the commencement of his career he announced : ' It is not my desire to print many books ; but such only as are book» of consequence, of intrinsic merit, or established reputation.' When we recollect that he only... | |
 | 1903 - 504 páginas
...as to his aims and ambitions, in the preface which is probably well known to most of you. He said : "It is not my desire to print many books, but such...such a price as will repay the extraordinary care and expense that must necessarily be bestowed upon them. ... If this performance shall appear to persons... | |
 | William Dana Orcutt - 1928 - 286 páginas
...years later that the completed work appeared. " It is not my desire to print many books," he wrote, " but such only as are books of Consequence, of intrinsic...such a price as will repay the extraordinary care and experience that must necessarily be bestowed upon them." As to the style of the typography, Baskerville... | |
 | David McKitterick - 1992 - 556 páginas
...many books; but those, books of Consequence, of intrinsic merit, or established Reputation, such as the public may be pleased to see in an elegant dress,...price, as will repay the extraordinary care and expence which must necessarily be bestowed upon them.' Here, in his proposals of 1757 for an edition of Milton,... | |
 | Library Association - 1903 - 758 páginas
...to his aims and ambitions, in the preface which is probably well known to most of you. He said : " It is not my desire to print many books, but such...such a price as will repay the extraordinary care and expense that must necessarily be bestowed upon them. . . . If this performance shall appear to persons... | |
 | 1876 - 594 páginas
...styles " the first attempt " ; he states that it is not his desire to print many books, " but only such as are books of consequence, of intrinsic merit, or...such a price as will repay the extraordinary care and expense that must necessarily be bestowed on them." Eeferring then to the Paradise Lost, he says :... | |
 | 240 páginas
...press, paper, and method of printing: It is not my desire (he wrote in the preface to his Milton, 1757) to print many books, but such only as are books of Consequence, and which the public may be pleased to see in an elegant dress, and to purchase at such a price as... | |
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It is not my desire to print many books ; but such only, as are books of Consequence, of intrinsic merit, or established Reputation, and which the public may be pleased to see in an elegant dress, and to purchase at such a price, as will repay the extraordinary... 