“How much, thought I, has each of these volumes, now thrust aside with such indifference, cost some aching head – how many weary days! how many sleepless nights! How have their authors buried themselves in the solitude of cells and cloisters; shut themselves up from the face of man, and the still more blessed [...]
The End of Books II: The Greenwich Expedition.
04-Dec-08After my previous book expedition, I still had seven boxes of books which had been purged from the Richmond Hill collection. These were the dregs of the dregs – the kind of books that are required in college courses, cost a great deal of money, are turned into new editions in a few years, [...]