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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: so `stalled' of dusting them that she determined to sell them.
Had she been in poverty, I should have urged the buyer, Stark,
the duty of giving her a small sum out of his great gains."
Such chances as this do not fall to a man's lot twice;
but Edmond Werdet relates a story very similar indeed,
and where also the "plums" fell into the lap of a London dealer.
In 1775, the Recollet Monks of Antwerp, wishing to make a reform,
examined their library, and determined to get rid of about 1,500 volumes--
some manuscript and some printed, but all of which they considered
as old rubbish of no value.
At first they were thrown into the gardener's rooms; but, after some months,
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