A PROFITABLE “HOBBY”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19033, 10 June 1924, Page 10

A PROFITABLE “HOBBY”

The profits that now and again arise out of intellectual pleasures are again and again demonstrated in the public auction-room (the Morning Post points out). The discriminating buyer of works of art or literature, irrespective of fashion, seldom makes a mistake. In the various sales of the Britwell Court Library wo have seen books that were purchased for a mere song realise hundreds, and sometimes thousands of pounds. In most cases collectors of this character accumulated their treasures for the Joy it gave them, and not for any ulterior idea of monetary gain. Of this ilk was William Henry Miller the founder of the Britwell Court Library. He was a born bookman, in tact probably the most noted bibliophile of his time—the successor of that prince of book-collectors, Richard Heber. Miller rightly prided himself on his library, which he tormed at his beautiful seat in Buckinghamshire. His heirs are now reaping the reward of his knowledge and enthusiasm.