Roosevelt Standard | 1934-06-21 | Page 7 | First Book Collector

first fint book collector while there were many early book collectors one ot of the most noted was Apel licon the athenian who has become famous because his enthusiasm thusia sm carried him so far that he be stole choice books whose owners refused to sell he was very rich and collected an important Il library but finally was driven from athens because of his thefts in his collection were first editions or of aristotle and Theoph rastus and he had a priceless copy of the iliad all books then were in scroll form ap pel jellicon licon died in si 84 B CL 0