The Anatomy of Bibliomania PDF book is popular Antiques & Collectibles book written by Holbrook Jackson. The book was released by University of Illinois Press on 2001 with total hardcover pages 676. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania. This title comments on why we read,
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Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often
Examines the violence, destruction, and suppression that have hounded books throughout their history and the fears that lead to such treachery. This book identi
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those boun