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| Title: | Romance of the Book
: Classic & Contemporary Confessions on Living with Books Intensively |
| Author: | Marshall Brooks (ed) |
| ISBN: | 0913559288 : 9780913559284 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Weight: | .322 Kg. |
| Published: | Birch Brook Press - January 1995 |
| List Price: | 11.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Collections & anthologies of various literary form |
This book features a selection of essays from the early days of the book to current times when some claim the book could become an endangered species. Each writer relates a lifelong relationship with the book as a friend, source of inspiration, educational tool, an object to collect or give as a gift, or as a philosophical ally in one's darkest days. Among the writers included: Colette, Franklin, Petrarch, Poe, Lamb, Douglass, Thoreau, Hazlitt, Fuller, Gissing, Eliot, as well as contemporary authors. Printed on 80 lb. Cream White Mohawk Vellum in 12 Bookman type, with a letterpress cover printed on an antique press.
