Excerpt from Book-Verse: An Anthology of Poems of Books and Bookmen From the Earliest Times to Recent Years Was first written or printed. A few miscellaneous pieces are included together at the end of the volume. 50 many various readings exist of several of the poems quoted herein, that sometimes it has been no easy matter to decide which to select. Where, as in the case of Chaucer, the quaint old spelling adds a piquancy or expression to the lines, the text has not been interfered with; in a few cases, however, the orthography has been slightly modernised. 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.