Published 1996
“…My first love -- The birth of
a new passion -- The luxury of reading in bed -- The
mania of collecting seizes me -- Baldness and intellectuality -- My romance with Fiammetta -- The delights of fender-
fishing -- Ballads and their makers -- Booksellers and printers, old and new -- When Fanchonette bewitched me -- Diagnosis of the Bacillus Librorum -- The pleasures of extra-illustration -- On the odors which my books exhale -- Elzevirs and divers other matters --
A book that brings solace and cheer -- The malady
called Catalogitis -- The Napoleonic Renaissance -- My workshop and others -- Our debt to monkish men.…”
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