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THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS
CARICATURE OF TWO GREAT VICTORIANS W. M. THACKERAY AND CHARLES DICKENS
THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS
BY A. EDWARD NEWTON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON MCMXX
Printed in the United States of America
DEDICATION
If, as Eugene Field suggests, womenfolk are few in that part of paradise especially reserved for book-lovers I do not care. One woman will be there, for I shall insist that eight and twenty years probation entitles her to share my biblio-bliss above as she has shared it here below. That woman is my wife.
A. EDWARD NEWTON
OCTOBER, 1918