Book About Books
Edition: Avenel ed. 1981 edition
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: December 12, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780517368350
Subjects: Books; Non-Classifiable; Sale Books; Book collecting; Antiques / Collectibles
First sentence: Books, the most excellent and noble creations of Man, are, saith one, for company, the best Friends; in doubts Counsellours; in Damps Comforters; Time's Prospective, the home Traveller's Ship, or Horse, the busie man's best Recreation, the Opiate of Idle Weariness, the Mindes best Ordinary, Nature's Garden and Seed-plot of Immortality.