The Library: A Fragile History, Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen, Profile.
The intriguing category of “books about books” is broad: it embraces many different aspects of making, owning, using and even destroying books. The meta-attractions of this meta-genre have caused a recent flowering of popular and scholarly titles, such as Susan Orlean’s The Library Book, Richard Ovenden’s Burning the Books and Edward Brooke-Hitching’s marvellous The Madman’s Library…
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