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a very respectable library. He has one of the 

 few copies of Akistor, and a copy of Laon and 

 Cythna, dated 1818, suppressed on publication 

 and afterwards issued with alterations under the 

 title of The Revolt of Islam. A short time back 

 he picked up a copy of the exceedingly rare 

 Epipsychidion for ten pounds. His collection of 

 Shellej^ana is most complete and comprises almost 

 every word of importance ever written about the 

 poet. All the Quarterly Review articles, the 

 forged letters with Browning's Introduction, and 

 hundreds of interesting reviews and notes are 

 carefully treasured. In this collection is supposed 

 to be the only copy of The Illiberal: Verse and 

 Prose from the North, a satire upon The Liberal. 

 There is no record of it in the British Museum, 

 and Mr. Buxton Form an has never come across 

 another copy, although it bears well-known 

 publishers' names. Mr. Tegetmeier was led to 

 collect Shelley's works purely from admiration 

 of the poet, and the result is that he has now 

 a most valuable library. He has a wonderful 

 instinct for rare books, and w r ide experience 

 has taught him to be a most remarkable judge. 

 He seems to possess a keen scent for anything 

 out of the common and his eyes have become 

 sharp from practice. It was only a short time 

 back that he discovered the author of Vestiges 

 of Creation, and now possesses a book which 

 contains an advertisement giving the author's 



