Excerpt from The Bibliographical Decameron, or Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected With Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography, Vol. 3 In the Pursuits if Literature he was called milk-white Gosset.' This must not be understood with reference to the colour of his complexion, or of his clothes - but to his love of books bound in vellum.' As a friend and neighbour I was well acquainted with the tone and texture of his library, but there was no violent predilection for this milk-white' tint; and the clinquant' of an epithet is, we know, oftentimes as thoughtlessly reverberated as the epithet itself is precipitately bestowed. Dr. Cosset's library was rather select than numerous. 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.