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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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Years
after,
I
sold
my
first
edition
of
Gibbon
for
even
less
than
it
cost
me;
it
went
with
a
great
many
other
fine
books
in
folio
and
quarto,
which
I
could
not
drag
about
with
me
in
my
constant
removals;
the
man
who
bought
them
spoke
of
them
as
"tomb-stones."
Why
has
Gibbon
no
market
value?
Often
has
my
heart
ached
with
regret
for
those
quartos.
The
joy
of
reading
the
Decline
and
Fall
in
that
fine
type!
The
page
was
appropriate
to
the
dignity
of
the
subject;
the
mere
sight
of
it
tuned
one's
mind.
I
suppose
I
could
easily
get
another
copy
now;
but
it
would
not
be
to
me
what
that
other
was,
with
its
memory
of
dust
and
toil.
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