Edmund Gosse takes volumes down from his own shelves and talks about them: Camden’s Britannia, A Mirror for Magistrates, Donne’s last sermon Death’s Duel, Gerard’s Herbal, forgotten romances and old plays. Each essay mixes bibliographical detail with the lives of the authors and the oddities that make a book worth owning.
A delightful companion for book collectors and anyone fond of the byways of English literature. Download the free EPUB.