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The bibliomaniac proceeds ac- cording to certain principles, but, being a lover of books rather than of knowledge, attachea himself to accidental rather than essential qualities, and spends a fortune for works the contents of which he might obtain for a few dollars. The specialty which gives value to a book may be its age or rarity, the vicissitudes through which it has passed, or the fact of its having issued from a particular publishing house. It may be a handsome and peculiar binding, fanciful typography, the circumstance that it has belonged to some eminent person- age, possessing perhaps an autograph or mar- ginal notes, or that the purchaser desires it to swell a collection in some particular depart- ment of literature. Bibliomania originated in
