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name. This book was suppressed directly after 

 publication, and the secret Mr. Tegetmeier shares 

 with very few people." 



Mr. Lennard, however, was misinformed 

 regarding the price Tegetmeier paid for the 

 Epipsychidion. His daughter tells me that he 

 picked up this rarity on an old bookstall in 

 Farringdon Road for a few pence, and she often 

 heard him tell the story of his finding the treasure, 

 which he eventually sold to Mr. Buxton Forman, 

 who also " collected " Shelley, for some £30. 

 Mr. Horace Cox has told a mutual friend how 

 Tegetmeier would often enter the Field office, 

 after one of his searches in second-hand book- 

 shops, with a book under his arm, and saying, 

 " I've got a real treasure here ! " sit down to 

 pore over his latest " find." Sir Walter Gilbey 

 also tells me that he has reason to be grateful 

 to Tegetmeier' s love of old bookshops, for " he 

 never forgot the tastes of his friends, and there 

 are in the Elsenham Library many works which 

 he unearthed during his explorations and secured 

 for me. He possessed an extensive acquaintance 

 with the writings of old authors in many depart- 

 ments of science and economy, and collected old 

 books outside his natural history interests, though 

 such were special objects of his searches." 



His natural history library, it goes without 

 saying, was remarkably complete, and included all 

 the standard works, such as Dresser's Birds of 



