A party of friends takes an evening walk, visits a cabinet of rarities, attends a book auction and talks its way through a library and a drawing room, all the while discussing the incurable disease of book collecting. Beneath the light fiction lies a vast store of footnotes on early printers, bindings, famous libraries and the prices their treasures fetched.
A goldmine on Regency book collecting, and gentle comedy for anyone who has bought one book too many. Download the free EPUB.