| Author | Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac |
| Contents | My first love -- The birth of a new passion -- The luxury of reading in bed -- The mania of collecting seizes me -- Baldness and intellectuality -- My romance with Fiammetta -- The delights of fender-fishing -- Ballads and their makers -- Booksellers and printers, old and new -- When Fanchonette bewitched me -- Diagnosis of the Bacillus Librorum -- The pleasures of extra-illustration -- On the odors which my books exhale -- Elzevirs and divers other matters -- A book that brings solace and cheer -- The malady called Catalogitis -- The Napoleonic Renaissance -- My workshop and others -- Our debt to monkish men. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | Z: Bibliography, Library science |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Book collecting |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 443 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 1996 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 60 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Price | $0.00 |
