Download or read book The Great Book-Collectors (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Isaac Elton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Book-Collectors Asia Minor was celebrated for her libraries. There were many curious books in Ephesus, and rich stores Of books at Antioch on the Orontes, and where the gray-capped students 'chattered like water-fowl' by the river at Tarsus. In Pergamus they made the fine parchment like ivory, beloved, as an enemy has said, by 'yellow bibliomaniacs whose skins take the colour Of their food'; and there the wealthy race of attalus/built up the royal collection which Antony captured in war and sent as a gift to Cleopatra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.