In 1821, Charles Knight -- who one day would attain a modest measure of fame as publisher of works like
home library
One room was abandoned when the piles neared the ceiling, and at some point a subsidence of books blocked the door from the inside, sealing the room off.
Five little puppies dug a hole under the fence and went for a walk in the wide, wide world....
It has been almost seven decades since those words first appea
It has been almost seven decades since those words first appea
In an ideal world, we all would have whatever time and money we need to construct the private libraries of our dreams.
What is the best way to catalogue a personal book collection?
I suspect that most of us have vices that we occasionally rue. Mine is the so-called political novel.
Two hundred years ago today, on 30 October 1811, the London publisher Thomas Egerton released to the public a
