21 August 2009

From the bookshelves 4


Books as objects; objects to heft, smell, feel, taste? Books as the depositories of collected wisdom? How about reading books? Here I am treating them like objects. I have read them but I haven't said anything about them. Perhaps I need to read them again.


This is a selection edited and introduced by Julian Shuckburgh and published in 1986. An edition of the complete 72 Peverel Papers in chronological order was published in 2008 by John Owen Smith.

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