Augustine Birrell, barrister and politician, opens at Oxford’s Bodleian Library with its half-million volumes and then wanders through the pleasures and follies of the bookish life. Essays on bookworms, confirmed readers, first editions, library gossip, librarians and lawyers at their leisure, and the Non-Jurors mix anecdote with literary history.
Light, urbane essays for book collectors and anyone who likes to read about reading. Download the free EPUB.