The anatomy of bibliomania
By: by Holbrook Jackson.
Publisher: The Soncino press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Bibliomania; Books; Books and reading
Description: Jackson inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania ("a genial mania, less harmful than the sanity of the sane"). His commentary addresses why we read, where we read (on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet -- this has "a long but mostly unrecorded history"--In bed, and in prison), and what happens to us when we read. He touches on bindings, bookworms, libraries, and the sport of book hunting, as well as the behavior of borrowers, embezzlers, thieves, and collectors. Francis Bacon, Anatole France, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leigh Hunt, Marcel Proust, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, and scores of other luminaries chime in on books and their love for them.
Notes: "Limited to 1000 copies numbered 1-1000, and 48 special copies signed by the author ... numbered i to xlviii."