William Carew Hazlitt 
The Book-Collector (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1904 volume is not only a meticulously researched history of book collecting but a guide for aspiring and more experienced collectors. Hazlitt discusses collectors of every walk of life, including Reverend Thomas Corser, The Chevalier D’Eon, Richard Heber, the Duke of Roxburghe, Thomas Grenville, George Daniel, Lord Spencer, and Henry Huth.

Circa l’autore

William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), grandson of famed critic William Hazlitt, was an English bibliographer, author, and editor. His best known works include A Handbook to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain (1867), Four Generations of a Literary Family: The Hazlitts (1897), The Letters of Charles Lamb (1886), The Lambs (1897), and Shakespeare, the Man and His Works (1902).