text:  Descend to what shifts they may in order to lower their prices by piracy from other booksellers or clipping and coining of authors--no purchasers! Still the hope prevailed for a time among the lovers of letters that a great glut having occurred the world was chewing the cud of its repletion; that the learned were shut up in the Bodleian and the ignorant battening upon the circulating libraries; that hungry times would come again! But this fond delusion has vanished