The Periodical Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...In one or two cases families have been met with who have cherished through many generations the unhappy delusion that they were owners of a First Folio, whereas investigation of the volume that they prized has proved it to be either an imperfect copy of the third folio or one of the earliest of the ' facsimile' reissues of the last century. The majority of copies now in America have been exported comparatively recently by London booksellers. The ownership of the American copies seems in many instances to change with perplexing frequency. Preliminary particulars as to the publication of the absolutely faithful facsimile of the First Folio, which is being printed at Oxford by the collotype process, will be found on the opposite page of wrapper. The 'Periodical' is printed on one side of the paper only, for the convenience of those luho may care to take extracts from its pages." Berkeley as Querist. The First Night of Cato.' 'Whether reasonable fashions are a greater restraint on freedom than those which are unreasonable? Whether customs and fashions do not supply the place of reason in the vulgar of all ranks? Whether fools do not make fashions and wise men follow them? What makes a wealthy people? Whether mines of gold and silver are capable of doing this? And whether the negroes, amidst the gold sands of Afric, are not poor and destitute? Whether paper be not a valuable article of commerce? And whether it be not true that one single bookseller in London yearly expended above four thousand pounds in that foreign commodity? How it comes to pass that the Venetians and Genoese who wear so much less linen and so much worse than we do, should yet make very good paper, and in great quantity, while we make very little? Whether claret be not often drunk rather ...