book review
As book historian David Pearson points out in this excellent compendium,
For many of us, the past three months of lockdown has meant extra time for reading. With no social or cultural events to attend, the books have beckoned.
There are many novels about bookshops, rather fewer about collectors of rare books, and almost none about book design.
It is perhaps inevitable that our quarterly roundup of books about books is heavy on heavy books, i.e. oversized, coffee-table tomes, the kind you might give or wish to receive as a holiday gift.
It’s September, that time of year that tends to bring us all back to the books, so to speak.
For many people summer brings at least a short break from the workaday world, time to be spent chipping away at personal projects and hobbies or simply reading a great (bookish) novel.
Few names bestir the hearts of book collectors and die-hard bibliophiles as much as Shakespeare and Gutenberg.
With all the news about book theft of late (in Pittsburgh; and Dayton), and a nationally screened film about the 2004 robbery of Audubon's Birds of America in Kentucky, it may seem as thou
Lost books, medieval manuscripts, and secret archives are favorite topics for novelists, and we bibliophiles can't seem to get enough of them.
