Publisher's Synopsis
"The Countryman. RYou know how much, for some time past, the editions of the Elzevirs have been in demand. The fancy for them has even penetrated into the country. I am acquainted with a man there who denies himself necessaries, for the sake of collecting into a library (where other books are scarce enough) as many little Elzevirs as he can lay his hands upon. He is dy-ing of hunger, and his consolation is to be able to say, RI have all the poets whom the Elzevirs print-ed. I have ten examples of each of them, all with red letters, and all of the right date.r This, no doubt, is a craze, for, good as the books are, if he kept them to read them, one example of each would be enough.r"
