It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a good brain must be in want of a book. From Jane Austen to the Brontë sisters, 19th century literature churned out some powerful ...
The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...
The Library Company notes that the bindings “appeared on American books only briefly — around 1850-55 — a time of increasingly elaborate book cover decoration.” The use of inlaid shell on books wasn’t ...
If the past is foreign country because they do things differently there, we’re lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman. An expert in Renaissance customs (she was an adviser on the ...
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BURTON OF ARABIA—Seton Dearden— McBride ($3). To Victorians for 50 years the career of six-foot, black-eyed, hot-headed Sir Richard Francis Burton seemed more fabulous than anything discovered, by ...
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