Excerpt from A Group of Londoners It is a charming characteristic of C. C. R. That he has always something new to show you usually an Elizabethan or Jacobean ms., but as often as not a well known book annotated by a not less well known reader - even S. T. C. Himself. Discoveries to you and me so epoch-making are the warp and woof of his life. By an inde finable law, the rarities gravitate to his already over-congested treasure - house. Once he hunted them: now they hunt him. As the years before him diminish, the tasks set by his editorial ambi tion increase, and he grudges every minute spent away from his desk. The bookseller is gradually and steadily transmuting to author. To us, to - day, this is nothing; but how the wits at Will's Coffee House would have played with the idea, in those days when most of the jokes were at book sellers' expense! London has many secondhand booksellers, but none like C. C. R. He alone 1s author and poet too. There is C. S., who has known all the scholars of the past fifty years and could make a volume of reminiscences of bookworms that should be a classic; yet he does not write, but trains canaries. There is N. O. S., to whom every goose is a swan; but he does not write. There is H. S. M., whose catalogues are in themselves treasures; but he does not write. C. C. R. Is unique. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.