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Joseph William Drexel
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Joseph William Drexel was a banker, philanthropist, and book collector.
1877 portrait by Jacob H. Lazarus
1877 portrait by Jacob H. Lazarus
1889 bust of Drexel by John Quincy Adams Ward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
1889 bust of Drexel by John Quincy Adams Ward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Book collecting
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Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and a person who collects books is often called a bibliophile but can also be known as an bibliolater, meaning being overly devoted to books, or a bookman which is another term for a person who has a love of books.
Some inexpensive collectible books: these are, left to right, by Tyndall, Collingwood, H. M. Field, Bryce, Woolf, and Asimov.
Some inexpensive collectible books: these are, left to right, by Tyndall, Collingwood, H. M. Field, Bryce, Woolf, and Asimov.
The beginning of Paradise Lost from a 1720 illustrated edition. Not a first edition but desirable among antiquarians.
The beginning of Paradise Lost from a 1720 illustrated edition. Not a first edition but desirable among antiquarians.