unearths some literary gems.
From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field:
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We were engaged at extra-illustrating Boswell's life of Johnson, and had already got together somewhat more than eleven thousand prints...
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/443/443-h/443-h.htm#chap12
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He has declared that if all the [book] catalogues sent to and read by him in that space of time were gathered together in a heap they would make a pile bigger than Pike's Peak, and a thousandfold more interesting.
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