Source Notes for The Library by Stuart Kells (Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017)

p. 6. ‘My company is gone, so that now I hope to enjoy my selfe and books againe, which are the true pleasures of my life, all else is but vanity and noyse.’: Peter Beal, ‘“My Books are the Great Joy of My Life”. Sir William Boothby, Seventeenth-Century Bibliophile’, in Nicholas Barker (ed.), The Pleasures of Bibliophily, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 285. p. 6. ‘the existence within his dwelling-place of any book not of his own special kind, would impart to him the sort of feeling of uneasy horror which a bee is said to feel when an earwig comes into its cell’: John Hill Burton, The Book-Hunter etc, (Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1885), p. 21. p. 8. ‘menial and dismal’: Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Autobiographical Essay’, in The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, (London: Picador, 1973), p. 153. p. 8. ‘filled with tears’: Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Autobiographical Essay’, in The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, (London: Picador, 1973), p. 153. p. 8. ‘On that miraculous day, she looked up from reading C. S. Lewis, noticing he had begun to cry. In perfect speech, he told her, “I’m crying because I understand”.’: Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, ‘Borges and $: The parable of the literary master and the coin’, Longreads, June 2016. p. 8: ‘a nightmare version or magnification’: Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Autobiographical Essay’, in The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, (London: Picador, 1973), p. 154. p. 9. ‘the treatise the Venerable Bede might have written (and never wrote) on Saxon mythology’: Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel, (Boston: David R. Godine, 2000), p. 23. p. 10. ‘“Oh Georgie,” Señora Borges said, “I don’t know why you waste your time with Anglo-Saxon instead of studying something useful like Latin or Greek!”’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 16. p. 13. ‘at once a map, a long narrative poem, and the foundation of an Aboriginal’s religious and traditional life…It is secret and there are penalties for those who transgress’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 411. p. 14. ‘like opening a door in a secret palace and entering a labyrinth of countless corridors and passages’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 411.

1 p. 14. ‘a treasure trove of poetry’: Barry Hill, quoted in ‘Strehlow: A “Rough and Passionate” Journey Through the Centre. Kieran Finnane talks with biographer Barry Hill’, Alice Springs News, 25 September 2002. p. 14. ‘wildly eccentric’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Anne-Marie Mykyta, 26 November 1984. p. 14. ‘a dense, often bewilderingly literary work’: Philip Jones, ‘Strehlow, Theodor George Henry (Ted) (1908–1978)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University; published first in hard copy 2002; accessed online May 2017. p. 14. ‘Let me say hello to the first man in the world who’s read it’: Kath Strehlow, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 409. p. 15. ‘the nature of human restlessness’: Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987), p. 161. p. 15. ‘perhaps the only book in the world—the only real attempt since the Poetics of Aristotle, to define what song (and with song all language) is’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Anne-Marie Mykyta, 26 November 1984. p. 15. ‘I feel I’m reading Heidegger or Wittgenstein’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Kath Strehlow, August 1983. p. 15. ‘twentieth-century lynchpin: you only have to look at the work of Lévi-Strauss to realise this’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Kath Strehlow, 24 August 1983. p. 15. ‘The pyramids are little mud pies in comparison’: Bruce Chatwin, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 411. p. 16. ‘Bruce would wander around where he wanted. When sales went on view, there would be thirty-five lots missing and things were misnumbered and dirty’: Marcus Linell, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 87. p. 16. ‘live bait’: Kenelm Digby-Jones, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 119. p. 16. ‘Many of the skills Borges acquired through cataloguing books for the Miguel Cané municipal library, Bruce picked up in Antiquities’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 90. p. 16. ‘of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fish, rooms, instruments, heavenly bodies, horses and people’: Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems, Vol. 2, (London: Penguin Books, 2000), p. 143. p. 17. ‘celebrated for neither their prose nor their charm’: Rory Stewart, ‘Walking with Chatwin’, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2012.

2 p. 17. ‘strode into the realm of literary respectability’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 487. p. 17. ‘I can’t say I believe the songlines literally,… Maybe any third-year anthropology student could shoot it to bits, but what’s wonderful is the passion with which Bruce approaches it’: Colin Thubron, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 487. p. 17. ‘Things can never again be quite the same as they were ante-B.C.’: Shirley Hazzard, letter to Bruce Chatwin, 23 November 1988. p. 17. ‘Little Englanderism [and] a literary establishment that loves to reward poems to goldfish and novels about the tepid lusts of women librarians’: Andrew Harvey, ‘Footprints of the Ancestors’, The New York Times, 2 August 1987. p. 18. ‘superficially exquisite and tasteful like a Mont Blanc pen, and as unrelated to everyday life’: Ruth Brown, ‘The songlines and the empire that never happened’, Kunapipi, 13:3, 1991, p. 6. p. 18. ‘If there is one person more damaging to the position of the Aboriginal Australian than the racist, it is the person who idealises them and romanticises them’: Stewart Harris, Itʼs coming yet: An Aboriginal treaty within Australia between Australians, (Aboriginal Treaty Committee, 1979), p. 74. p. 19. ‘pulped book on songlines’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Murray Bail, London, 3 August 1983, in Elizabeth Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare (eds.), Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, (London: Jonathan Cape, 2010), p. 369. p. 20. That’s a fake. That’s a fake. That’s a fake’: David Ellis-Jones, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin. (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 101. p. 20. ‘flapping between her breasts’: Bruce Chatwin, “The Estate of Maximilian Tod”, in Anatomy of Restlessness, (New York: Viking, 1996), p. 56. p. 20. ‘We thought he was a bit of a fake.’: Mrs Tim Clarke, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 101. pp. 20-21. ‘An Aboriginal subincision knife,’ ‘It’s a wonderful colour...of chartreuse’: Susannah Clapp, With Chatwin: Portrait of a writer, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997), p. 227. p. 22. ‘what proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain?...and therefore never yet perceived?’: Elias Canetti, Auto Da Fé, (New York: Random House, 2011), p. 67. p. 22. ‘into thine hands as Simeon the Just took the Child Jesus into his arms to carry him and kiss him’: John Willis Clark, The Care of Books, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901), p. 77. p. 23. ‘So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed bookseller’s wife and bought Legend.’: Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 14, (New York: G. E. Croscup, 1903), p. 372.

3 p. 23. ‘the pagans near the gentlemen’s seats, the Christians near the ladies’: Apollinaris Sidonius, Epistolae, II, 9.4, quoted in Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 192. p. 23. ‘unless they happen to be married’: William S. Dix, ‘On the Arrangement of Books,’ in College and Research Libraries, 25 (March 1964), p. 86. p. 23. ‘Never think of marriage...begin to read until it vanishes.’: Isaac Gossett, quoted in “Some Caricatures of Book-collectors: an essay” in A. N. L. Munby, Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 8. p. 24. ‘a visit to at least one bookshop a day throughout the honeymoon is to be recommended’: A. N. L. Munby, “Floreat Bibliomania”, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 40. p. 24. ‘took her outside and made her comfortable, then went back to finish the shop’: ‘Geoffrey Keynes’, in The Book Collector, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 1982, p. 425. p. 24. ‘Oh, Geoffrey,’ Lydia said, ‘you look so sexy.’ ‘What can she have meant?’: ‘Geoffrey Keynes’, in The Book Collector, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 1982, p. 425. p. 24. ‘When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes’: Desiderius Erasmus, letter to Jacob Batt, 12 April 1500; in Collected Works of Erasmus, Vol. 1, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974), p. 252. p. 24. ‘she lost the use of her limbs by sitting indoors reading’: Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries with recollections of the author ś life and of his visit to Italy, Vol. II, (London: Henry Colburn, 1828), p. 66. p. 25. ‘was so deeply plunged in an overweening desire for knowledge, so besotted with it, that he never had leisure to cut his hair, or pare his nails’: Michel de Montaigne, ‘Of the Education of Children’, quoted in Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 562. p. 25. ‘Tell my wife that I never interfere with the household’: Charles & Mary Elton, The Great Book-Collectors, (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893), p. 100. p. 27. ‘but you could eat the leftovers. And yes, that’s why a diploma is called a sheepskin.’: Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, (Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006), p. 59. p. 28. ‘membranaceous bijoux’: T. F. Dibdin, The Bibliographical Decameron, Vol. 3, (London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Press, 1817), p. 173. pp. 28-29. ‘which was regularly taken to pieces by the roadside...and this, when enthusiasts asked the Bugatti’s age, enabled one to indulge in a little piece of lifemanship and reply nonchalantly, “Parts of it date back to the fifteenth century”.’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘Book Collecting in the 1930s’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), pp. 220-21.

4 p. 30. ‘likely to waste a lot of people’s time’: Maurice Pope, The Story of Decipherment, (London: Thames & Hudson, 1975), p. 88. p. 32. ‘increase the intelligence of the people of Egypt and improve their memories’: Plato, Phaedrus, trans. by Robin Waterfield, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2002), p. 68. p. 33. ‘Every niche or recess must have been dedicated to a certain class of authors, each marked with an appropriate heading’: Luciano Canfora, The Vanished Library, (University of California Press, 1990), p. 81. p. 33. ‘The place of the cure of the soul’: Luciano Canfora, The Vanished Library, (University of California Press, 1990), p. 10. pp. 33-34. ‘King Ptolemy once gathered seventy-two Elders. ...translate identically as all the others did’: The Talmud (Tractate Megillah 9). p. 35. ‘a characteristic product of the Alexandrian erudition which exercised itself in antiquarian research and tabulation’: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part X. Edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, (London: Sold at the Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund, et al., 1914), p. 100. p. 35. ‘from the ships’: Roy MacLeod, ‘Introduction: Alexandria in History and Myth’ in Roy MacLeod (ed.), The Library of Alexandria, (New York & London: I. B. Tauris, 2005), p. 5. p. 36. ‘a copy of every book entered in their Register on condition that...Library by others might be examined, collated and copied by the Company’: L. W. Hanson, ‘The Shakespeare Collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford’, in Allardyce Nicoll (ed.), Shakespeare Survey: 4, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), p. 78. p. 36. ‘idle bookes and riffe raffes’: Sir Thomas Bodley, letter to Thomas James, 1 January 1612, quoted in L. W. Hanson, ‘The Shakespeare Collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford’, in Allardyce Nicoll (ed.), Shakespeare Survey: 4, (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1951), p. 79. pp. 37-38. ‘in which he made happy use of bombast and anachronism’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), pp. 189-90. p. 38. ‘a sturdy peasant type’: Lisa Hill, ‘Auto-da-Fé, by Elias Canetti, translated by C.V. Wedgewood’, https://anzlitlovers.com/2010/08/21/auto-da-fe-by-elias-canetti-translated-by-c-v- wedgewood/. p. 38. ‘her eye on the main chance’: Lisa Hill, ‘Auto-da-Fé, by Elias Canetti, translated by C.V. Wedgewood’, https://anzlitlovers.com/2010/08/21/auto-da-fe-by-elias-canetti-translated-by-c-v- wedgewood/. p. 40. ‘I remember having given up my clothes to the Greeks in Constantinople in order to get codices—something for which I feel neither shame nor regret’: Giovanni Aurispa, quoted in Don

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Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel & Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001), p. 53. p. 42. ‘all excellent copies’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 101. p. 42. ‘filled to overflowing one house in Brussels and another in Ghent. Books were heaped on every table, so that there was never room to spread a tablecloth, and stood in piles in the alcove where he slept’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 101. p. 42. ‘contemplating with infantile pleasure an engraving of a fine female torso’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 103. p. 42. ‘lived in a cavern of books, slept on them...among the books which covered his couch’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 133. p. 43. ‘choice, costly, and copious’, ‘embed himself... slips of the original Bayeux Tapestry’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Bibliophobia, (London: Henry Bohn, 1832), p. 50. p. 43. ‘and perhaps that was the best place, after all’: Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995), p. 153. p. 43. ‘I had to divide my money...toilet paper from its function’, ‘Once I had tucked the book back down my knickers...per layer under the mattress’: Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995), p. 154. p. 46. ‘Assign your book-boxes to the great, this copy of me one hand can grasp’: Martial Epigrams, Vol. I, (London: William Heinemann, 1919), p. 31. p. 47. ‘the books that held the true word incarnate had to be works of art’: Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow- Lighted Bookshop, (Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006), p. 98. p. 50. ‘one would have to fear an attack of robbers who would certainly be attracted by the beauty of the book’: Christopher de Hamel, ‘Book Theft in the Middle Ages’, in Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote (eds.), Against the Law. Crime, sharp practice and the control of print, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 6. p. 51. ‘with which he measured rare books and bought them by length and breadth’: John Hill Burton, The Book-Hunter, (Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1885), p. 25. p. 51. ‘by the yard’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 12. p. 53. ‘I will take the charge and cost vpon me, to reduce it again..., to helpe to furnish it with bookes’: Sir Thomas Bodley, letter to the Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University, March 1598, quoted in Burnett Hillman Streeter, The Chained Library, (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), pp. 200-201. p. 55. ‘with as dry a brush as possible’: Cyril Davenport, The Book: its history and development, (New York: P. Smith, 1930), p. 146.

6 pp. 55-56. ‘if the world goes on this way for a thousand years and as many books are written as today, I’m afraid whole cities will be made up of libraries’: Leibniz, quoted in Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel & Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001), p. 133. p. 56. ‘methinks we want rather readers for bookes than bookes for readers’: Thomas Coryat, ‘The Epistle to the Reader’, in Coryat’s Crudities, Vol. I, (London: W. Cater, J. Wilkie & E. Easton, 1776). p. 56. ‘where the head of a busy household could retreat to read his favourite books, often at night when others were asleep’: John Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, (London: Fontana Press, 1994), p. 397. pp. 56-57. ‘rejoiced to find in the tower of a castle belonging to Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, a study-room with desks and book-rests’: John Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, (London: Fontana Press, 1994), p. 397. p. 58. ‘You’ve bought books and filled shelves...tomorrow the realm of music will be yours?’: Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Opuscules, 113, quoted in Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 190. p. 59. ‘I should like it more if it were a little less clean and a little more used’: Cardinal Federico Borromeo, quoted in Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 188. p. 59. ‘Twenty-two acknowledged concubines...were designed for use rather than for ostentation’: Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, (London: Printed for T. Cadell et al., 1837), p. 67. p. 59. ‘much as a squirrel gathers nuts’: Raymond Irwin, The Origins of the English Library, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958), p. 183. pp. 59-60. ‘To be thought a lunatic by one’s fellow men…is an insignificant price to pay for a lifetime’s enjoyment’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘Floreat Bibliomania’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 37. p. 60. ‘In early days there is an opinion that the...rare book is a puerility, an idiosyncrasy of adolescence.’: Walter Bagehot, quoted in Henry H. Harper, Book-lovers, bibliomaniacs and book clubs, (Boston: Privately printed at the Riverside Press,1904), p. 62. p. 64. ‘dirty yellow in colour and full of tears and holes’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 25. p. 65. ‘amounted to little beyond a handful of legal books and a few works by Bernard, Anselm and later authors’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 31.

7 p. 65. ‘in shimmering and powerful verse falling not far short of poetic majesty’: Cencio Romano, letter to Francesco da Fiano, Rome, summer 1416, quoted in Margaret L. King (ed. and translator), Renaissance Humanism, (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett, 2014), p. 33. p. 66. ‘small in size but prodigious in the quality of its eloquence and wisdom...plainly refutes the reasoning of those who have declared the human condition to be lower and more wretched than that of the beasts’: Cencio Romano, letter to Francesco da Fiano, Rome, summer 1416, quoted in Margaret L. King (ed. and translator), Renaissance Humanism, (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett, 2014), p. 33. p. 66. ‘among us in Italy, he had been so mutilated, so mangled, ravaged, no doubt, in the toils of time, that it was impossible to recognize in him his form or his nature’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Guarino Veronese, Constance, 15 December 1416, quoted in Margaret L. King (ed. and translator), Renaissance Humanism, (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett, 2014), p. 31. p. 66. ‘in a very mutilated state’: Leonardo Aretino, letter to Poggio, 1416?, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 105. p. 66. ‘on account of its holy and incorrupt antiquity’: Cencio Romano, quoted in Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 32. p. 66. ‘innumerable books’: Cencio Romano, quoted in Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 32. pp. 66-67. ‘broke out in tears... the unsurpassed glory and honour of the Latin language...debased and defiled by dust, worms...what a damned sewerful of men!’: Cencio Romano, letter to Francesco da Fiano, Rome, summer 1416, quoted in Margaret L. King (ed. and translator), Renaissance Humanism, (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Co., 2014), p. 34. p. 67. ‘For these books were not in the library,...capital offence would have been stuck away’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Guarino Guarini, quoted in P. W. G. Gordan (trans. and annotator), Two Renaissance Book Hunters: The letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), p. 195. pp. 67-68. ‘the foulness of that prison, the filth of that hole, the savagery of the guards’, ‘Dejected, dressed in tatters as though...save him from being subjected to an unjust punishment’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Guarino Veronese, Constance, 15 December 1416, quoted in Margaret L. King (ed. and translator), Renaissance Humanism, (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett, 2014), p. 31. p. 70. ‘they flooded all Italy and overflowed into France, Spain, Germany, England and every other country where Latin was understood’: Poggio Bracciolini, quoted in Facetia Erotica of Poggio Fiorentino, (New York: Privately printed, 1930), p. 10.

8 p. 71. ‘The most scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, rape, sodomy, murder and incest’: Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, (London: Printed for T. Cadell et al., 1837), p. 1213. p. 71. ‘When he could do nothing else, he copied texts, but he preferred to “save” them by thrusting them under his robe’: Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel & Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001), p. 53. p. 71. ‘If he ever chanced to see anything in anyone else’s house or in a museum that he thought he was more worthy to possess, he had no scruples about taking it.’: E. V. Lucas, Reading, Writing, and Remembering: A literary record, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932), p. 48. pp. 72-73. ‘superstitious books and images’: ‘History of the Bodleain’. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. p. 73. ‘all its appendages of seals and signatures’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 414. p. 73. ‘tall, most amiable and very fat’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 105. p. 74. ‘in his youth he and other children were allowed to play in the room and run their fingers over the illuminated manuscripts and books of prints’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 109. p. 74. ‘powdery nuisances’: Maurice F. Tauber (ed.), Library Binding Manual, (Boston: Library Binding Institute, 1971), p. 90. p. 74. ‘soon dropped off’: Warwick William Wroth, ‘Clarke, Edward Daniel’, in Leslie Stephen (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 10, (London: Elder Smith & Co., 1887), p. 421. p. 75. ‘for these, being more modern, were regarded as the more valuable’: Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, Vol. 6, (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818), p. 41. p. 75. ‘were considered only as so much rubbish’: Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, Vol. 6, (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818), p. 41. p. 75. ‘any purpose for which the parchment might be required’: Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, Vol. 6, (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818), p. 42. p. 75. ‘χειρόγραφα! Manuscripts!’: Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, Vol. 6, (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818), p. 42.

9 p. 75. ‘contemned heap’: Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, Vol. 6, (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818), p. 42. p. 76. ‘In the customary manner...[Poggio] uttered bitter complaints about the state of the libraries in these places and declared it his duty to free the treasures of antiquity from their bonds’: Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel & Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001), p. 53. p. 76. ‘in a disorderly heap’: Johann Strümpf, 1548, quoted in Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 34. p. 77. ‘By Heaven, if we had not brought help, he would surely have perished the very next day.’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Guarino Guarini, quoted in P. W. G. Gordan (trans. & annotated), Two Renaissance Book Hunters, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), pp. 193-95. p. 77. ‘not merely from exile, but virtually from annihilation’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Guarino Veronese, Constance, 15 December 1416, quoted, in Margaret L. King (ed. and translator), Renaissance Humanism, (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Co., 2014), p. 31. p. 78. ‘for the benefit of the waters’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 68. p. 78. ‘to which I am come to try whether they can remove an eruption which has taken place between my fingers’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 67. pp. 78-79. ‘Much is said by the ancients of the pleasant baths of Puteoli,...Heliogabalus, they seem to be amply instructed by simple nature.’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 68. p. 79. ‘exposed to view on every side’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 69. p. 79. ‘entertaining no hostile dispositions towards each other’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 70. p. 79. ‘only by a simple railing’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 70.

10 p. 79. ‘through which they can see and converse with, and touch each other...entertain the least idea of any thing approaching to indelicacy’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 70. p. 79. ‘very curious encounters’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), p. 70. p. 79. ‘good looking and well-born and in manner and form like a goddess’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, 18 May 1416, quoted in Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan (ed.), Two Renaissance Book Hunters, (New York, Columbia University Press), p. 28. p. 79. ‘linen vests, which are however slashed in the sides, so that they neither cover the neck, the breast, nor the arms of the wearer’: Poggio Bracciolini, letter to Niccolo Niccoli, Baden, 1416, quoted in Rev. William Shephard, The Life of Poggio Bracciolini, (Liverpool: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802), pp. 70-71. pp. 80-81. ‘I wrote to tell you I had made a little clay model of the Library staircase...and more in keeping with the desks, the ceiling and the door’: Michelangelo Buonarroti, letter to Bartolomeo Ammannati, January 1559, in E. H. Ramsden (trans & ed.), The Letters of Michelangelo, Vol. 2, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963), p. 186. p. 81. ‘The principal development here is an application of...treatment of the interior walls belongs by tradition to exteriors’: John Shearman, Mannerism, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967), pp. 74-75. p. 81. ‘seem to hang there like tongues’: Alexandra Korey, ‘Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library, Mannerist Tendencies’, 27 September 2010. http://www.arttrav.com/florence/laurentian-library/ p. 81. ‘seem to mate rather than meet’: James Ackerman, quoted in Alexandra Korey, ‘Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library, Mannerist Tendencies’, 27 September 2010. http://www.arttrav.com/florence/laurentian-library/. p. 84. ‘the Lovers of Perspective’, ‘Perspective never appears more graceful than in Architecture’: Andrea Pozzo, Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects, etc. in English and Latin: containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from the confusion of occult lines...done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr John James of Greenwich, (London: Printed for J. Senex and R. Gosling, W. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1724). p. 84. ‘Sanatorium for the soul’: Ernst Tremp, Johannes Huber & Karl Schmuki, The Abbey Library of Saint Gall, (St. Gall: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2007), p. 32.

11 p. 84. ‘one of the most illustrious, flourishing and scholarly monasteries of the Western world’: Werner Vogler, quoted in Ernst Tremp, Johannes Huber & Karl Schmuki, The Abbey Library of Saint Gall, (St. Gall: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2007), p. 25. p. 85. ‘Books, pamphlets, maps, pictures, newspapers, manuscripts, filling a vast amount of shelving and stacked upon the floor, tables and chairs in every room, and up the staircase.’: p. 150. ‘Mitchell, David Scott (1836-1907)’, in Charles Stitz (ed.), Australian Book Collectors, (Bendigo: Bread Street Press in association with The Australian Book Auction Records, 2010), pp. 175-78. p. 85. ‘What are those there?... ‘or I’ll never come into this shop again’: James R. Tyrrell, Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney, (North Ryde: Angus & Robertson Publishers), p. 150. Note that these words were not exchanged with Dymock himself but with Bob Gibson, the manager of Dymock’s secondhand department. p. 85. ‘could only be printed on asbestos’: James R. Tyrrell, Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney, (North Ryde: Angus & Robertson Publishers), p. 150. p. 86. ‘Well,’ Mitchell said, ‘put a price on the lot.’...‘Good morning’: ‘Mitchell, David Scott (1836- 1907)’, in Charles Stitz (ed.), Australian Book Collectors, (Bendigo: Bread Street Press in association with The Australian Book Auction Records, 2010), pp. 175-78. p. 86. ‘by many hard names’ such as ‘Vampire’ and ‘Dragon’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 535. p. 86. ‘not for his own delight, but to prevent others enjoying them’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 535. p. 86. ‘the devouring monster’, who ‘disappeared as mysteriously as he had come’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 535. p. 88. ‘And also of your charyte call to remembraunce...That now in our englyssh this boke is prynted inne.’: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, translated into English by John Trevisa, ([Westminster]: printed by Wynken de Worde,1496). p. 91. ‘very clear and very proper lettering, and without any faults, which Your Eminence would have been able to read effortlessly with no glasses’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 133. p. 94. ‘Brother Francesco Colonna loved Polia tremendously’: Des Cowley & Clare Williamson, The World of the Book, (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of Victoria, 2009), p. 24. p. 94. ‘might have owned something in his line’, ‘dragged out of some mouldy store-room’: Andrew Lang, Books and Bookmen, (New York: George J. Coombes, 1886), p. 77.

12 p. 94. ‘a rubbish heap in an English cellar’: Andrew Lang, The Library, (London: Macmillan & Co., 1881), p. 96. p. 94: ‘part of the original binding [was] still clinging to the leaves’, ‘dukes, millionaires and Rothschilds’: Andrew Lang, Books and Bookmen, (New York: George J. Coombes, 1886), p. 77. p. 95. ‘Bysechynge my sayd ladyes bountyuous grace to receyve...understonden of the redars and herers—and that shall suffyse’: Lotte Hellinga, Caxton in Focus, (London: British Library, 1982), p. 13. p. 95. ‘whereas the children of peasants have taken to study and thereby come to large bishoprics and high legal offices…so that, as the common proverb says, the chairs have jumped upon the table’: John Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, (London: Fontana Press, 1994), p. 396. p. 96. ‘licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies, examples of which exist in Pompeii’: David Gaimster, ‘Sex and Sensibility at the British Museum’, History Today, Vol. 50, Issue 9, September 2000. p. 97. ‘Mr Rose…is more than a little odd. He...not only sickly but even a bit dubious in morality’: John Gross (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2006), p. 180. p. 97. ‘Are you a doctor or a psychologist?’…’: P. R. Harris, The Reading Room, (British Library, 1979), p. 20. p. 99. ‘less instructed and more excitable’: John Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, (London: Fontana Press, 1994), p. 472. p. 100. ‘Protestant theology, on the Papal legate’s advice, was separately shelved and in theory available only in exceptional circumstances’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 138. p. 100. ‘Collado wanted to open it, but one of the fathers angrily forbade it, saying that it was a work of the damned’: John Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, (London: Fontana Press, 1994), p. 473. p. 100. ‘expel and avoid the occasion of errors and opinions opined’: Dorothy Auchter, Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 2001), p. xiv. p. 102. ‘something valuable, an item of treasure’: Peter Gilliver et al., The Ring of Words, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2006), p. 161. pp. 102-03. ‘Tolkien brought it down in the world,...was a highly important part of hobbit life.’: Peter Gilliver et al., The Ring of Words, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2006), p. 162. p. 103. ‘a piece of brontosaurus’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in association with Jonathan Cape, 1999),p. 290.

13 p. 103. ‘such delicate features, as well as beautiful teeth’: Kurt Guggenheim, quoted in Ernst Tremp, Johannes Huber and Karl Schmuki, The Abbey Library of Saint Gall, (St. Gall: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2007), front flap blurb. p. 105. ‘there was always need of liturgical books to conserve and transmit evidence of the Church’s spiritual life’: The Vatican Library, (Yorktown Heights: Belser, 1989), p. 11. p. 107. ‘Just see what the property of God’s church has been wasted on!’: Pope Clixtus III, quoted in Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 78. p. 107. ‘the convenience and honour of the learned and studious’: Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘God’s Librarians. The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century’, The New Yorker, 3, January 2011. p. 108. ‘mutilated, torn, cut in pieces and thrown among the rubbish’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 79. p. 110. ‘Quod non fecerunt Barbari, fecere Barberini’ (‘What the Barbarians did not do, the Barberini do’): The Vatican Library, (Yorktown Heights: Belser, 1989), p. 26. p. 110. ‘because it can be of use to the public, there are custodians’: David R. Marshall (ed.), The Italians in Australia. Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art, (Parkville & Florence: University of Melbourne & Centro Di, 2004), p. 102. p. 111. ‘The Cardinal also did not hesitate to acquire some of his manuscripts in like manner. He confiscated what he wanted at the Abbey Grottaferrata which, for centuries, had been a centre of Greek–Byzantine studies’: The Vatican Library, (Yorktown Heights: Belser, 1989), p. 26. p. 112. ‘pay service and homage’: John Preston, ‘The Vatican Archive: the Pope’s private library’, The Telegraph, 1 June 2010. p. 112. ‘the Great Master of Prayer, he who holds the place of Jesus...where there is much grass, in the month of the flowers’: John Preston, ‘The Vatican Archive: the Pope’s private library’, The Telegraph, 1 June 2010. p. 112. ‘sines that may keep off loiterers, peepers, and talkative persons’: Humfrey Wanley, memorandum addressed to Robert Harley, 27 February 1714, quoted in Geoffrey Wakeman, ‘Humfrey Wanley on Erecting a Library’, The Private Library, Vol. 6, No. 4, October 1965, p. 83. p. 112. ‘gentleman stranger’, ‘Extraneus’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 170. p. 113. ‘because it is not so coy as the others, which scarce let themselves be seen; whereas this opens its dores publikly to all comers and goers, and suffers Them to read what book they please’: Richard Lassels, The Voyage of Italy, (Paris: to be sold in London by John Starkey,1670), p. 123. p. 113. ‘not because I think it worthy to be read by you, but for my own esteem and to procure life and reputation for the work, in itself low and frail, in your most Illustrious and Reverend Lordship’s

14 heroic and immortal library’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 189. p. 113. ‘idiots, servants, idlers, chatterboxes and casual strollers’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 148. p. 113. ‘a stringent search should be made’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), pp. 174-176. p. 113. ‘the single recorded exception was disastrous: a volume of costume plates lent to the Duc de Luxembourg and “miserably torn” by his children’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 266. p. 113. ‘even a scholar of the eminence of Isaac Vossius could only gain admittance through influence at court’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 130. p. 114. ‘for the common convenience of the learned’: Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘God’s Librarians. The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century’, The New Yorker, 3 January 2011. p. 114. ‘all shut up in Presses…and not expos’d on shelves to the naked ayre’: Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘God’s Librarians. The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century’, The New Yorker, 3 January 2011. p. 114. ‘under double keys’: Father Leonard Eugene Boyle, O.P., ‘The Vatican Library’, Introduction to Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture, Library of Congress exhibition, 1993. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/intro.html p. 116. ‘Sweeter than thy unguents and cosmetics and Sabean perfumes is the smell of those old books of mine.’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 611. p. 117. ‘she would go through the Lives of the Fathers as if she were eating dessert’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 312. p. 120. ‘if more was needed, more would be forthcoming’: ‘Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven’, in Sotheby’s, ‘Census of Copies of the Bay Psalm Book, with Provenance, Sale, and other Relevant Histories’. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/the-bay-psalm-book-sale- n09039/The-Bay-Psalm-Book/2013/10/census-of-copies-of-.html. p. 121. ‘hectoring’: ‘Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven’, in Sotheby’s, ‘Census of Copies of the Bay Psalm Book, with Provenance, Sale, and other Relevant Histories’. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/the-bay-psalm-book-sale-n09039/The-Bay-Psalm- Book/2013/10/census-of-copies-of-.html.

15 p. 121. ‘All of us have many disappointments in life in a business way and there is no sense to tearing one’s self up emotionally over such disappointments’: Edwin L. Weisel, letter to Philip Rosenbach, 17 January 1952. p. 121. ‘I feel it would be both useless and undignified to try to pin any legal or moral obligation on Yale’: Edwin L. Weisel (quoting Morris Wolf), letter to Philip Rosenbach, 17 January 1952. p. 121. ‘the most generous of the friends responsible for donating the volume’, ‘Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven’, in Sotheby’s, ‘Census of Copies of the Bay Psalm Book, with Provenance, Sale, and other Relevant Histories’. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/the-bay- psalm-book-sale-n09039/The-Bay-Psalm-Book/2013/10/census-of-copies-of-.html. p. 122. ‘by loaning it to libraries across the country, before putting it on long-term loan at one of them’: Steve Annear, ‘Old South Church’s Bay Psalm Book Sold for $14 Million at Auction’, Boston Daily, 27 November 2013. p. 122. ‘whispering of the leaves of books’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 608. p. 122. ‘the lisping of lake-waves, or the remonstrance of a shy stream at the overtures of the young wind when the morning or the evening stars sing together’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 608. p. 122. ‘hearing was believing’: Marshall McLuhan, The Medium and the Light, (Wipf & Stock, 2010) p. 59. p. 123. ‘absolutely rotten, crumbling to dust at the slightest friction’: Douglas Cockerell, Bookbinding, and the Care of Books. A text-book for bookbinders and librarians, (London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1963), p. 292. p. 125. ‘sons of Tink’: Benjamin Sacks, ‘Frederick W. Beinecke (1887- 1971)’, 25 September 2012. https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=122. p. 127. ‘When the doors of these “secret rooms” are opened, they provide a glimpse behind the stage set’: James W. P. Campbell, The Library, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013), p. 168. p. 128. ‘ingeniously upholstered’, ‘the second Sir Ferdinando’: Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1921), p. 146. p. 128. ‘Well, I can’t be expected to think of everything!’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 198. p. 129. ‘as big and hefty as Liddell and Scott’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 135. p. 129. ‘cigarettes, cigars, liqueurs, jewels, chocolates, bon-bons, or note paper’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 135.

16 p. 130. ‘Sew’d in the very best Manner on six bands on the outside (the Bands are not saw’d in and there is not any false bands)’: Roger Payne, bill for binding of The Vale Royall of Chester for Sir Peter Leycester, quoted in Nicholas Pickwoad, ‘The history of the false raised band’, in Robin Meyers et al. (eds), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 124. p. 130. ‘The raised spine is a giveaway. That’s quality binding’: Franklin Library advertisement of 1986, reproduced in Nicholas Pickwoad, ‘The history of the false raised band’, in Robin Meyers et al. (eds), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 104. p. 132. ‘probably the earliest known piece of English writing of any kind’: Rita Reif, ‘Manuscript is Dated to 7th Century’, The New York Times, 13 May 1985. p. 132. ‘It’s a little piece of vellum,’ he said. ‘A very tiny piece. It is old—very old. It is absolutely not very beautiful’: Rita Reif, ‘Manuscript is Dated to 7th Century’, The New York Times, 13 May 1985. p. 133. ‘excessive delay’: John Preston, ‘The Vatican Archive: the Pope’s private library’, The Telegraph, 1 June 2010. p. 133. ‘the last great Roman emperor and a model of European kingship’: Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘God’s Librarians. The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century’, The New Yorker, 3 January 2011. p. 134. ‘venal, corrupt, immoral and un-Christian’: Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘God’s Librarians. The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century’, The New Yorker, 3 January 2011. p. 134. ‘Nature had granted to womankind only three orifices by which to be satisfied’: Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘God’s Librarians. The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century’, The New Yorker, 3 January 2011. p. 134. ‘In short, she should not read a word of mine, although she should know that I had written something she might have read’: Gerald Murnane, The Plains, (Carlton: Norstrilia Press, 1982), pp. 98-99. p. 135. ‘and that the woman it was meant for had at least glanced at it’: Gerald Murnane, The Plains, (Carlton: Norstrilia Press, 1982), p. 99. p. 135. ‘to write no book’: Gerald Murnane, The Plains, (Carlton: Norstrilia Press, 1982), p. 100. p. 135. ‘as lavishly as possible’: James W. P. Campbell, The Library, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013), p. 185. p. 135. ‘incredibly ornate’, ‘contorted allegorical figures’: James W. P. Campbell, The Library, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013), p. 185. p. 136. ‘As there are huge cases in the barrel-vaulted spaces...books, which is exactly what the monks intended’: James W. P. Campbell, The Library, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013), p. 185.

17 p. 136. ‘The words of the dead were thus kept above the bodies of the dead’: James W. P. Campbell, The Library, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013), p. 187. p. 137. ‘I have sometimes heard of an Iliad in a nutshell, but it has been my fortune to have much oftener seen a nutshell in an Iliad’: Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1710), p. 148. p. 140. ‘massive erudition’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 14. p. 140. ‘materialist book collectors’: K. C. Elhard, ‘Reopening the Book on Arcimboldo’s “Librarian”’, Libraries & Culture, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Spring, 2005), p. 115. p. 140. ‘a learned person’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 109. p. 141. ‘step outside’, ‘In order that I may punch you in the eye, and so relieve my feelings about the inefficiency of this library’: P. R. Harris, The Reading Room, (British Library, 1979), p. 20. p. 141. ‘erysipelatous affection’, ‘unparalleled diligence and sagacity’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 562. p. 141. ‘learned, of good appearance, good natured’: Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel and Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 2001), p. 55. p. 141. ‘ignorant, discourteous, envious and lazy’: Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, quoted in Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel and Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 2001), p. 89. pp. 141-42. ‘arrogant misanthropes who look upon their positions as sinecures’: Friedrich Hirsching, quoted in Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel and Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 2001), p. 89. p. 142. ‘40 miles from Madrid…An ignorant monk is the librarian’: Sir Frederick Madden, letter to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1855, quoted in Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 162. p. 142. ‘probably the ablest, and certainly the most disagreeable, Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘The acquisition of manuscripts by institutional libraries’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 67 p. 142. ‘neglected and desolate’, ‘There was mouldiness and rot everywhere...what a cloud of noxious air streamed out!’: Hugo Blotz (July 1575), quoted in Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 143. p. 143. ‘had become so disorganised that the existing index was useless’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 143.

18 p. 143. ‘From these uncertain beginnings the library progressed, gathering rarities and reputation’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 149. p. 143. ‘all the chief and principal Authors, as well ancient as modern’: Gabriel Naudé, Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library, (Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903), 39. p. 143. ‘as bare of printed paper as if a tornado had passed, and blown the leaves away’: Andrew Lang, The Library, (London: Macmillan & Co., 1881), p. 31. p. 144. ‘for he loved his handiwork as a father loves his only child’: Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel and Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 2001), p. 72. p. 144. ‘set out a program for a universal library, provided with the most important books in all branches of knowledge in their original languages and in translation’: Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel and Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 2001), p. 72. p. 145. ‘the first realisation of the modern idea of a research library’: Göttingen State and University Library, ‘About us: Portrait. https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/about-us/portrait/. p. 145. ‘the Napoleon of librarians’: Joseph Mordaunt Crook, The British Museum, (London: Allen Lane, 1972), p. 155. p. 145. ‘second founder’: Sir Frank Francis, ‘The British Museum in Recent Times’, in A. T. Milne (ed.), Librarianship and Literature: Essays in Honour of Jack Pafford, (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), p. 9. p. 147. ‘as if they were stray cats’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 141. p. 147. ‘cripples’, ‘they can be lent to friends, put in one’s pocket and taken up the river; and if they fell into the water it would not be the end of the world’: Tim Munby, ‘Floreat Bibliomania’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 38. p. 148. ‘made such abridgements of celebrated authors, preserving only what he thought good, and frequently reducing several volumes to one’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 571. p. 148. ‘who tore out so many offending pages that his library contained only one complete volume’, ‘were composed of fragments and remnants magnificently bound’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 571. p. 148. ‘You think I am mad, my boy, but it’s people who don’t do this who are really mad’: James Taylor, quoted in Macdonald Critchley & Eileen A. Critchley, John Hughlings Jackson: Father of English Neurology, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 176.

19 p. 149. ‘Only the hard spine and the end boards had stood up to the onslaught. The text had been more or less reduced to fluff.’: John Gross (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2006), p. 333. p. 151. ‘a pretty copy’: Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, ‘Gosset, Isaac’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), (Oxford University Press). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11117. pp. 151-52. ‘We retreated and left him to it!! She said nothing about it to any of us afterwards and we never asked him how it went’: Exhumation, The Price-Codes of the Book-Trade, (Berkeley, Ian Jackson, 2010), p. 17. p. 152. I found him in his arm-chair by the fireside,...find me roasting apples, and reading the History of Birmingham’: S. C. Roberts, ‘Johnson’s Books’, in his An Eighteenth-century Gentleman and other essays, (Cambridge: CUP, 1933), pp. 55-56. pp. 152-53. ‘into the auction room’, ‘The clock had struck twelve,...he is insatiable in his biblio- maniacal appetites’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Bibliomania, or, Book-madness, (London: H. G. Bohn, 1842), pp. 121-22. pp. 153-54. ‘which he showed to Bindley, who described it...the love of books blinded him to everything else.’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 532. p. 154. ‘running up unreasonable bills with Joliffe, the bookseller’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘Father and Son’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 226. p. 154. ‘unnatural gravity’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘Father and Son’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 228. p. 154. ‘caused high excitement among the literati of the Capital’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘Father and Son’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 227. p. 154. ‘Of multiplying books, my dear Richard, there is neither end nor use. The Cacoethes of collecting books draws men into ruinous extravagances. It is an itch which grows by indulgence and should be nipt in the bud’: Rev. Reginald Heber, letter to his son Richard Heber, 15 April 1789. p. 154. ‘any more Bookseller’s bills of which you know I have too much reason to complain, I will indulge you in laying out five Guineas at the sale you mention, but not a shilling more’: Rev. Reginald Heber, letter to his son Richard Heber, 15 April 1789. pp. 154-55. ‘and about every other Book you can have any real occasion for’: Rev. Reginald Heber, letter to his son Richard Heber, 18 July 1789. p. 155. ‘prohibited Extravagance’: Rev. Reginald Heber, letter to his son Richard Heber, 1 November 1791.

20 p. 155. ‘a bibliomaniac, if ever there was one’: Seymour de Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts 1530-1930, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930), p. 102. p. 155. ‘a bibliomaniac in the more unpleasant sense of the word; no confirmed drunkard, no incurable opium-eater, had less self-control’: William Roberts, The Book-Hunter in London, (London: Elliot Stock, 1895), p. 45. p. 155. ‘the great and strong passion of his life was to amass such a library as no individual before him had ever amassed’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, I, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 440. p. 155. ‘by all methods, in all places, at all times’: William Roberts, The Book-Hunter in London, (London: Elliot Stock, 1895), p. 47. p. 155. ‘No gentleman,’ he remarked, ‘can be without three copies of a book, one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.’: Seymour de Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts 1530- 1930, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930), p. 102. p. 155. ‘rooms, cupboards, passages and corridors, so choked, so suffocated, with books’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, I, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 436. p. 155. ‘up to the very ceiling…while the floor was strewn with them’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, I, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 437. p. 156. ‘lower school of the old Latin Poets’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, I, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 432. p. 156. ‘moot Greek metres’, ‘fight over derivatives and etymons’, ‘quote long passages’, ‘ring changes on “Robin Hood Garlands”’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, I, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 421. p. 157. ‘intolerable foulness’: entry for John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester in Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (eds), Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XXI, p. 538. p. 157: ‘a pariah amongst books’, ‘diabolical humour’, ‘indecent burlesque’, ‘outrageously ribald’: Haig A. Bosmajian, Burning Books, (Jefferson & London: McFarland, 2006), p. 189. p. 157. ‘one or two other obscene books’: Johannes Prinz, quoted in Haig A. Bosmajian, Burning Books, (Jefferson: McFarland, 2006) , p. 189. p. 157. ‘in poor taste’: Sidney Lee (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 62, (New York: Macmillan Co., 1900), p. 66. p. 158. ‘a private European collection’: John Vincent, ‘For sale: last surviving copy of “quintessential” English pornography’, The Independent, 26 November 2004.

21 p. 158. ‘virtually no erotic literature of any kind’, ‘sensational anthologies of anecdotal histories alongside medical works on masturbation’: Andrew Kahn, Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 293. p. 158. ‘and had to put it down’: Andrew Kahn, Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 293 footnote 51. p. 159. ‘overwhelmed by what he called the “hoity toity proceeding”—complicated issues of copyright and payment, and Hobhouse’s self-righteous bullying’: Corin Throsby, ‘Byron burning’, The Times Literary Supplement, 8 June 2016. p. 161. ‘flagrantly nonconforming sexual behaviour’: Ann Galbally, Redmond Barry: An Anglo-Irish Australian, (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1995), p. 34. p. 161. ‘September 22. Sunday. church. Mrs S 4 times… Parramatta with Mrs S. Mrs S 10 times’: Ann Galbally, Redmond Barry: An Anglo-Irish Australian, (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1995), p. 36. p. 162. ‘as we should love all things, not wisely but too well’: Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946), p. 126. p. 162. ‘not much larger than an ordinary bedroom’, George Kennan, ‘A Visit to Count Tolstoi’, The Century Magazine, June 1887, p. 261. pp. 162-63. ‘The floor was bare; the furniture, which was old-fashioned in form,...evidences of wealth and luxury might be found in many a peasant’s cabin in Eastern Siberia’: George Kennan, ‘A Visit to Count Tolstoi’, The Century Magazine, June 1887, pp. 255-56. p. 163. ‘a large, square room, plainly furnished, but made pleasant by pictures and sunshine’, ‘homely shelves’, ‘to have soberly grown old in constant service’: George Willis Cooke, Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy, (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882), p. 191. p. 163. ‘a number of good books, but very dusty and in great confusion...supposing they perhaps might contain portions of The Rambler or of Rasselas’: James Bowell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I, (Oxford: Talboys & Wheeler, and William Pickering, 1826), pp. 340-41. p. 163. ‘and as they were generally very old ones, clouds of dust were flying around him’: James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III, (Oxford: Talboys & Wheeler, and William Pickering, 1826), p. 6. pp. 163-64. ‘banged and buffeted them together until he was enveloped in a cloud of dust’, ‘This violent exercise over... to their places, where, of course, the dust resettled itself as speedily as possible’: Augustine Birrell, ‘The Johnsonian Legend’, in In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905), p. 123.

22 p. 164. ‘from an avidity to have one entertainment in readiness, when he should have finished another; resembling...while he eats something else which has been thrown to him’: James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III, (Oxford: Talboys & Wheeler, and William Pickering, 1826), p. 254. p. 166. ‘I just felt...like a man swimming without water’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 428. p. 167. ‘Upwards of 800 monasteries were suppressed, and, as a consequence...put to the vilest uses to which waste literature can be subjected’: John Willis Clark, The Care of Books, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901), p. 246. p. 167. ‘without consideration’: John Bale, quoted in ‘Excerpta et Collectanea’, The Freemasons’ Magazine and Cabinet of Universal Literature, June 1796, p. 404. p. 169. ‘arguably the most important collection of manuscripts ever assembled in Britain by a private individual’: C. J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, (London: British Library, 1997). pp. 169-70. ‘The Headmaster of Westminster, speeding to the rescue, saw a figure issue from the burning house “in his dressing-gown, a flowing wig on his head, and a huge volume under his arm”: it was Bentley saving the Alexandrine manuscript of the New Testament’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania. (New York: Avenel Books, 1981). pp. 427-28. p. 170. ‘an irradiated armadillo’: Andrew Prescott, ‘“Their Present Miserable State of Cremation”: the Restoration of the Cotton Library’, C. J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, (London: British Library, 1997). p. 171. ‘so they should get the maximum benefit from the heat of the fire in the grate’, ‘At about seven-thirty [in the evening] Cavendish...his help, augmented by a number of casual labourers who were in the area for the harvest’: A. N. L. Munby and M. Pollard, ‘Did Mr. Cavendish Burn His Caxtons?’, in A. N. L. Munby, Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 84. p. 171-72. ‘relatively small’, ‘comparatively little damage to the fabric of the house’: A. N. L. Munby and M. Pollard, ‘Did Mr. Cavendish Burn His Caxtons?’, in A. N. L. Munby, Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 89. p. 172. ‘Within weeks of his appointment, skips were hired and were soon filled with books... offered them around, and he needed to make space for texts that would be looked at’: Andrew D. Madden, Jared Bryson and Joe Palimi, ‘Information Behavior in Pre-literate Societies’, in Amanda Spink & Charles Cole (eds), New Directions in Human Information Behavior, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), p. 47. p. 173. ‘The world they had belonged to was finished’, ‘everything made its way into the stove, everything went up in smoke’: Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things, (1987).

23 p. 176. ‘the books of the Public Libraries of Paris, and of the Departments, could no longer be permitted to offend...other parts of books, together with all prefaces and dedications addressed to kings and nobles must disappear’: Anthony Hobson, The Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 130. p. 177. ‘Condorcet might have escaped the scaffold if he had only thrown away the neat little Horace from the royal press...when the binder had to cut the aristocratic coat of arms out of a book cover, and glue in a gilt cap of liberty, as in a volume in an Oxford amateur’s collection’: Andrew Lang, Books and Bookmen, (London: Longmans, Green, 1899), pp. 119-120. p. 178. ‘Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the hours of access...was enforced, and the precious books once again gathered dust on the shelves, forgotten and unread’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 240. p. 179. ‘had the sad experience of watching the library’s entire bookstock being thrown on a huge bonfire that burnt for days’: Gordon Thomas, letter to K. Binns, 26 August 1947, quoted in Christine Fernon, ‘Outpost Libraries: the National Library of Australia’s services to the outlying Commonwealth Territories, 1938–68’, The Australian Library Journal, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, 2007, p. 365. p. 179. ‘I simply do not know where to turn for copies of certain books’: Stanley Morison, letter to D. B. Updike, 9 December 1941, quoted in David McKitterick (ed.), Stanley Morison & D. B. Updike. Selected correspondence, (London: Scolar Press, 1980), p. 202. p. 180. ‘they were restrained from setting fire to the libraries by the thought that good scholars made poor soldiers’, ‘to lift a finger at something which seemed utterly mysterious and therefore divine’: Raymond Irwin, ‘Libraries, history’, in Thomas Landau (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Librarianship, (London: Bowes & Bowes, 1968), p. 253. p. 180. ‘to punish its Calvinist Elector’, ‘consciences were still troubled’: Anthony Hobson, The Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 80. p. 181. ‘whose acquisition is to be regarded as unlawful’: ‘Bavarian State Library’, World Heritage Encyclopedia. http://worldheritage.org/article/WHEBN0001958436/Bavarian%20State%20Library. p. 182. ‘found himself without crucial support in the Curia’: Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘God’s Librarians. The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century’, The New Yorker, 3 January 2011. p. 182. ‘support cultural activities of national interest’: Anne Laure Bandle, Raphael Contel and Marc-André Renold, ‘Case Ancient Manuscripts and Globe - Saint-Gall and Zurich’, Platform ArThemis (http://unige.ch/art-adr), Art-Law Centre, University of Geneva. https://plone.unige.ch/art- adr/cases-affaires/ancient-manuscripts-and-globe-saint-gall-and-zurich.. p. 183. ‘by a joint request from the highest executive of each party’: Anne Laure Bandle, Raphael Contel and Marc-André Renold, ‘Case Ancient Manuscripts and Globe - Saint-Gall and Zurich’,

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Platform ArThemis (http://unige.ch/art-adr), Art-Law Centre, University of Geneva. https://plone.unige.ch/art-adr/cases-affaires/ancient-manuscripts-and-globe-saint-gall-and-zurich. p. 186. ‘black-fleshed’, ‘Pest of the muses, devourer of pages’, ‘Wert thou born for the evil thou workest? Wherefore thine own foul form shapest thou, with envious toil?’: Evenus, quoted in John Francis Xavier O’Conor, Facts About Bookworms, (New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898), p. 39. p. 186. ‘crow like a cock unto his mate’: Christianus Mentzelius, quoted in John Francis Xavier O’Conor, Facts About Bookworms: Their history in literature and work in libraries, (New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898), p. 39. p. 186. ‘a small, white, silver shining worm or moth which...appears big and blunt and its body tapers from it toward the tail smaller and smaller, being shaped almost like a carrot’: Robert Hooke, quoted in John Francis Xavier O’Conor, Facts About Bookworms: Their history in literature and work in libraries, (New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898), p. 29. p. 187. ‘covered with bristles…like a tiny hedgehog, curling himself in his spikes to insure protection’: John Francis Xavier O’Conor, Facts About Bookworms, (New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898), pp. 58 & 16. p. 187. ‘flea generated in the room…is larger than any to be found elsewhere, except in the receiving rooms of work-houses’: P. R. Harris, The Reading Room, (London: British Library, 1979), p. 8. p. 189. ‘He then rolled a damaged 1000-gallon tank from the hotel to the site...knew vast sections of Virgil’s Aeneid in Latin. He also had a good working knowledge of Shakespeare’: ‘Borroloola. Isolated township full of eccentric stories about its unusual residents’, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 February 2004. p. 190. ‘stumbling into bush camps at night to find bushmen reciting from the Greek classics, or argumentative swaggies referring to their borrowed copies of Hansard to settle political debates’: Christine Fernon, ‘Outpost Libraries: the National Library of Australia’s services to the outlying Commonwealth Territories, 1938–68’, The Australian Library Journal, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, 2007, p. 369. p. 192. ‘a man rather calculated to inspire fear than love or respect’: F. S. Ellis, quoted in A. N. L. Munby, ‘The Earl and the Thief’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 175. p. 192. ‘wholly impervious’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘The Earl and the Thief’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 175. p. 193. ‘rather corpulent’, Anthony Hobson, ‘Guglielmo Libri’, Robin Myers et al. (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 138. p. 193. ‘as if he had never used soap and water or a brush’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 241.

25 p. 193. ‘The room…was not more than about 16 feet wide...and his ears were stuffed with cotton, as if to prevent his feeling sensible of it!’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 241. p. 195. ‘in the Middle Ages books were rare, and so too was honesty’: Burnett Hillman Streeter, The Chained Library, (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), p. 3. p. 195. ‘you expect every great manuscript to have been stolen at least once’: Christopher de Hamel, ‘Book Theft in the Middle Ages’, in Robin Myers et al. (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 12. p. 196. ‘In the library of the abbot, nothing:’ Christopher de Hamel, ‘Book Theft in the Middle Ages’, in Robin Myers et al. (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 12. p. 196. ‘Fresh chains were being purchased at Chetham College, Manchester, in 1742,...not till 1792. Magdalen was the last college in Oxford to retain them; here they lasted till 1799’: Burnett Hillman Streeter, The Chained Library, (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), pp. xiii-xiv. p. 198. According to the Heritage’s website: ‘After downsizing in 2007, Heritage Book Shop moved from its iconic building on Melrose Avenue through several locations and finally into Ben’s home in Tarzana where he is open by appointment.’ http://www.heritagebookshop.com/aboutus.php. p. 199. ‘No Levi’s’, ‘No sleeveless tops’, ‘No sandals’, ‘No underwire bras’, ‘I was glad I had not worn a white blouse’: Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009), p. 43. p. 199. ‘checked the holdings and found that 300 books were missing’: Anthony Hobson, ‘Guglielmo Libri’, in Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 134. p. 201. ‘the most important homogenous group in any city except Verona’: Anthony Hobson, ‘Guglielmo Libri’, in Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 136. p. 201. ‘Complete manuscripts could be removed and their places on the shelves filled with uncatalogued works of lesser value’: Anthony Hobson, ‘Guglielmo Libri’, in Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 136. p. 202. ‘relocated’, ‘Floriacensis’, ‘Florentinae’: Anthony Hobson, ‘Guglielmo Libri’, in Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 137. p. 203. ‘such a loud defence of his friend that the courts ordered him to appear before them, accused of contempt’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 242.

26 p. 203. ‘fraudulent attempts’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘The Earl and the Thief’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 191. pp. 203-04. ‘curious observations’, ‘in the gallery of an illustrious book lover, who appreciates their true value and to whom French erudition already owes so much’: Léopold Delisle, quoted in Anthony Hobson, ‘Guglielmo Libri’, in Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote (eds.), Against the Law, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 148. p. 204. ‘what may loosely be called fun’: J. R. Bickersteth, quoted in A. N. L. Munby, ‘The Triumph of Delisle: a sequel to “The Earl and the Thief”’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 194. p. 206. ‘The queen’s joyner had contrived [a] wooden machine...a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom’: Dean Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856), p. 244. p. 207. ‘book ejection apparatus’: U.S. Patent No. 4,050,754, quoted in Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 10. p. 209. ‘faintly Bohemian’: George Wheeler, Pierpont Morgan and Friends, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 82. p. 209. ‘high-minded’, ‘refined’, ‘well educated’, ‘sweet-looking’: Herbert L. Satterlee, J. Pierpont Morgan, (New York: Macmillan Co., 1939), p. 105. p. 210. ‘young and delicate looking woman’: George Wheeler, Pierpont Morgan and Friends, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 84, quoting Herbert L. Satterlee. J. Pierpont Morgan: An intimate portrait, (NY: Macmillan, 1939). p. 210. ‘growing pleasure in collecting great objects of art’: George Wheeler, Pierpont Morgan and Friends, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 49. p. 211. ‘the demands of representative government’: George Wheeler, Pierpont Morgan and Friends, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 49. p. 211. ‘My firm cable me of your notice...will sail Wednesday next week, Teutonic, and hold myself at the call of your committee’: J. Pierpont Morgan, cable to Senator Isham Harris, London, 26 May 1896. p. 211. ‘No price...is too high for an object of unquestioned beauty and known authenticity’: J. Pierpont Morgan, quoted in The Masters Hand: Drawings and manuscripts from The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, (New York et al.: Pierpont Morgan Library et al., 1998), p. 19. p. 212. ‘a sailor on shore leave’, ‘tipsy dowager with unlimited credit moving down Fifth Avenue on a riotous shopping trip’, ‘a Medici prince or even a pharaoh’: George Wheeler, Pierpont Morgan and Friends, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973), pp. 190 & 283, 191.

27 p. 212. ‘He began emptying Egypt of treasure at such a rate that on one of his visits he was scolded by Lord Kitchener’: George Wheeler, Pierpont Morgan and Friends, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 138. p. 213. ‘whisper and not shout’: The Masters Hand: Drawings and manuscripts from The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, (New York et al.: Pierpont Morgan Library et al., 1998), p. 20. p. 214. ‘with a setting of truly anachronistic magnificence’: George Wheeler, Pierpont Morgan and Friends, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 207. p. 214. ‘We tried!’: Joanna Scutts, ‘The Mysterious Woman Behind J. P. Morgan’s Library, Time Magazine, 17 May 2016. p. 214. ‘Just because I am a librarian...doesn’t mean I have to dress like one’: Joanna Scutts, ‘The Mysterious Woman Behind J. P. Morgan’s Library, Time Magazine, 17 May 2016. p. 215. ‘I am glad to tell you that [Jack has] a strong interest in the library and promised that I may go on collecting books and manuscripts when the war is over’: Belle da Costa Green, letter to London book dealer Quaritch, 1915, quoted in The Masters Hand: Drawings and manuscripts from The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, (New York et al.: The Pierpont Morgan Library et al., 1998), p. 22. p. 217. ‘You enter a dark, airless hall with heavy mahogany doors’, ‘suffocating’, ‘oppressive mausoleum’: Helene Hanff, Apple of My Eye, (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978), pp. 65-66. p. 217. ‘white stone outside, white stone and marble inside…almost a shock, coming to it as we did from the sombre darkness of the Morgan. The Frick is all light and air’: Helene Hanff, Apple of My Eye, (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978), p. 69. p. 218. ‘a domino effect toppled twenty-seven ranges, spilling 264,000 volumes, splintering solid oak chairs, flattening steel footstools, shearing books in half, destroying or damaging more than 8000 volumes’: John F. Camp and Carl A. Eckelman, ‘Library Bookstacks: An overview with test reports on bracket shelving’, Library Technical Reports, 26, Nov.-Dec. 1990, p. 777. p. 218. ‘The card catalogue toppled over, wall shelves collapsed, some stacks twisted, and two-thirds of the library’s 60,000 books spilled to the floor’: John F. Camp and Carl A. Eckelman, ‘Library Bookstacks: An overview with test reports on bracket shelving’, Library Technical Reports, 26, Nov.- Dec. 1990, p. 777. p. 219. ‘an annoying metal-on-metal sound whenever the ladder was used’: Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 143. p. 219. ‘the agility of a tightrope walker or a roofer’: Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel & Reuben Peiss, The Memory of Mankind, (New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001), p. 93.

28 p. 219. ‘It is not for nothing that mountaineering has a major part in the pursuits of the Fellows of the College’: A. N. L. Munby, ‘Some Caricatures of Book-collectors: An essay’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 13. p. 221. ‘I think I’ll take that little Bacon with me in my pocket,’ he said, ‘and if I am shipwrecked it will go down with me’: Harry Elkins Widener, quoted in A. S. W. Rosenbach, Books and Bidders, (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1927), p. 46. p. 222. ‘busy at his desk at 26 Broadway, filling out a loan application to borrow $20,000…to buy more Shakespeare’: Stephen H. Grant, ‘A Checkbook is an Autobiography: the Case of Henry Clay Folger (1857–1930),’ in The Americanist Independent, Vol. 1, Issue 3, September 2014, p. 22. p. 223. ‘I am sorry that I cannot let you see the manuscript you refer to, for I bought it some time ago...in twenty different banks and I do not remember which is in which, I cannot comply with your request’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 171. p. 223. ‘seems to think First Folios ought to be put in a bin in cellars like fine vintages’: Andrea Mays, The Millionaire and the Bard, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), p. 223. p. 223. ‘stripping this country of rare early editions of Shakespeare’s plays and poems—editions which had long been regarded as among its national heirlooms’: Sidney Lee, quoted in Andrea Mays, The Millionaire and the Bard, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), p. 162. p. 224. ‘embowered in shrubbery’: Henry Clay Folger, Jr., quoted in Andrea Mays, The Millionaire and the Bard, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), p. 248. p. 225. ‘to simulate ancient oak’: Andrea Mays, The Millionaire and the Bard, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), p. 247. p. 225. ‘the First Folio, illustrated’: Emily Folger, quoted in Andrea Mays, The Millionaire and the Bard, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), p. 240. p. 226. ‘in size, dignity and beauty, conspicuous above the rest’: Paul F. Boller, Jr., ‘The American Presidents and Shakespeare’, White House History, No. 30, Fall 2011. p. 226. ‘handsome new Folger Shakespeare Library’: Paul F. Boller, Jr., ‘The American Presidents and Shakespeare’, White House History, No. 30, Fall 2011. p. 226. ‘Shakespeare Treasures’: James Waldo Fawcett, ‘Folger Library Called Gem of Architecture: Noble Shelter Provided for Shakespeare Treasures of Business Man Who Honored Poet’, The Washington Post, 23 April 1932. pp. 226-27. ‘is conceded by critics of architecture to be one of the noblest small buildings in the world. Of delicate and harmonious lines and of graceful proportions, the structure may be likened to a fine gem, skilfully cut and polished by a lapidary genius’: James Waldo Fawcett, ‘Folger Library

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Called Gem of Architecture: Noble Shelter Provided for Shakespeare Treasures of Business Man Who Honored Poet’, The Washington Post, 23 April 1932. p. 227. ‘a true work of art’, ‘temple to Shakespeare appropriate in all ways’: Ada Rainey, ‘Library Declared True Work of Art: Critic Finds Folger Temple to Shakespeare Appropriate in All Ways’, The Washington Post, 23 April 1932. p. 227. ‘glistening white marble fashioned into a form of the utmost simplicity, set in a square of foliage and flowers, makes an appeal to the mind and heart’: Ada Rainey, ‘Library Declared True Work of Art: Critic Finds Folger Temple to Shakespeare Appropriate in All Ways’, The Washington Post, 23 April 1932. p. 227. Word jewels of a master poet now repose in a casket, the excellence of which he may ...house finer than that of good Queen Bess, their fashioner’s most exalted patroness’: Thomas M. Cahill, ‘Dream is Achieved in Folger Library: Noted Homes Torn Down to Build Treasure House of Shakespeariana’, The Washington Post, 23 April 1932. p. 227. ‘They were like the old craftsmen of the Middle Ages. They loved their work, they were proud to do their best and they are proud of the result’: ‘Workmen Gloried in Rearing Library: Superintendent Tells of Pride of Craftsmen in Work of Construction’, The Washington Post, 23 April 1932. p. 227. ‘The whole thing’s built crooked’: Jasmine Horsey, ‘50 years later, Beinecke pushes access’, Yale News, 30 January 2013. p. 228. ‘FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE GREATER GLORY OF SHAKESPEARE’: Andrea Mays, The Millionaire and the Bard, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), p. 277. p. 229. ‘A Shetland pony might be conveniently kept... to carry the more delicate visitor from one extremity to the other’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, I, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 365f. p. 231. ‘rape of the country’s literary heritage’: Nicolas Barker, ‘The Rape of the Rylands’, The Book Collector, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 1988, p. 170. p. 231. ‘destroyed the integrity of a great part of the bibliothecal wealth of this country’: Nicolas Barker, ‘The Rape of the Rylands’, The Book Collector, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 1988, p. 169. p. 232. ‘owl-eyed and awkward, wearing spectacles and an air of gloom’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 158. p. 232. ‘bright young women’, ‘We are not impressed...when some young thing gushes that she “just loves Shakespeare”. A love of Shakespeare is less important than common sense and an ability to type’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 253.

30 p. 232. ‘cheerful young lady’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 2. p. 232. ‘girls sunned themselves’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 210. p. 232. ‘hardly worth saving, much less studying’, ‘God-forsaken Patagonian refuge’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 21. pp. 232-33. ‘The really safe spots are going to be crowded with people we won’t like. We’ll just stay here and keep our air conditioning going as long as it will run, and read solid Renaissance sermons on innate depravity—a theme which somehow cheers us’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 21. p. 233. ‘sweat it out in highbrow comfort’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 17. p. 234. ‘a few loads of good topsoil’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 32. p. 234. ‘which formerly hung in theatre lobbies and are too big to hang anywhere on our premises. They are just about right for a Texas oil millionaire’s mansion, and we shall be receptive to a good offer’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 77. p. 235. ‘It was acquired years ago from a dealer anxious to sell Mr Folger anything of human interest...brought it to his shop that ‘a tradition in the family said it once belonged to Queen Elizabeth’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 157. p. 235. ‘no such corsets are known from the Elizabethan period’, Donald King, quoted in Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 157. p. 235. We cannot even attribute it to Queen Anne or to one of the mistresses of George I,...have to change our exhibition label to read ‘One old corset, late Queen Anne or early Georgian’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 157. p. 237. ‘well-meaning and worried friend of the Folger’, ‘in case the promoters of Christopher Marlowe proved that he wrote Shakespeare’s plays’, ‘had hedged years ago by acquiring one of the finest Marlowe collections in the world’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 155.

31 p. 244. ‘Even for a daring Irishman, the trip was difficult’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 197. p. 244. ‘in supreme silence, amid shafts of light entering through opaque windows that were almost grooved into the walls and ended in pointed arches’: Umberto Eco, On Literature, (Orlando: Harcourt, 2004), p. 308. p. 245. ‘an experiment on the Library of Babel’: Umberto Eco, On Literature, (Orlando: Harcourt, 2004), p. 124. p. 245. ‘I felt like poisoning a monk’, ‘it was a document that, read in another context, could lead to the gallows’: Umberto Eco, Reflections on The Name of the Rose, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1985), pp. 13-14. p. 246. ‘the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue...a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors’: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2014), p. 306. p. 246. ‘could not help but denounce the heresies of Eco’s novel’: Lucien X. Polastron, Books on Fire, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2007), p. 313. p. 246. ‘Nevertheless, dream and fantasy laugh at accountants’: Lucien X. Polastron, Books on Fire, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2007), p. 313. p. 250. ‘squandered’, ‘that it is difficult to find anything new in that world’: J. R. R. Tolkien, letter Stanley Unwin, 1938, quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien: A biography, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977), p. 186. p. 251. ‘Better something than nothing!’: J. R. R. Tolkien, letter to Rayner Unwin, 22 June 1952, quoted in , Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien: A biography, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977), p. 212. p. 252. ‘and so he is tedious a good deal of the time’: ‘Briefly Noted’ (The New Yorker, 1954?), quoted in Jane Chance, The Lord of the Rings: The mythology of power, rev. ed., (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), p. 10. p. 253. ‘meant to suggest a Christmas tree’: quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien: A biography, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977), p. 228. p. 259. ‘One would not mind being buried in such a library’: Andreas Wilhelm Cramer, (c.1822), quoted in Ernest Tremp, Johannes Huber & Karl Schmuki, The Abbey Library of Saint Gall, (St Gall: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2007), p. 69.

32 p. 259. ‘narrow lanes ran between books stacked from floor to ceiling’, ‘and there the owner had died, almost entombed in print’: Tim Munby, ‘Floreat Bibliomania’, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 39. p. 259. ‘with his head on Sophron’s Jests’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 231. p. 259. ‘Carried away by a sudden apoplectic fit, he died on a pile of books like a warrior on the battlefield’: Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), p. 103. p. 259. ‘among his bundles, piles, and bulwarks of paper’: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p. 535. p. 262. ‘I want a poor student to have the same means of indulging his learned curiosity...that Government is bound to give him the most liberal and unlimited assistance in this respect’: Report from the Select Committee on the British Museum together with the Minutes of Evidence, appendix and index, (London: House of Commons, 14 July 1836), quoted in Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 297. p. 262. ‘at her most awe inspiring. At her most queer, and needless to say, at her most crude!’: Mark Brown, ‘Library books defaced by prankster playwright Joe Orton go on show’, The Guardian, 12 October 2011. p. 262. ‘and have a good shit while you are reading!’: Mark Brown, ‘Library books defaced by prankster playwright Joe Orton go on show’, The Guardian, 12 October 2011. p. 263. ‘library wallpaper’: Mark Aston, quoted in Mark Brown, ‘Library books defaced by prankster playwright Joe Orton go on show’, The Guardian, 12 October 2011. p. 263. ‘Libraries might as well not exist...They’ve got endless shelves for rubbish and hardly any space for good books’: Joe Orton, interview, 1967, quoted in Margaret Maclean, ‘Our current exhibition “Joe Orton in 1964”’, posted in Library Special Collections, 3 June 2014. http://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/06/03/our-current-exhibition-joe-orton-in-1964/. p. 263. ‘catch these two monkeys’: Sidney Porrett, quoted in Mark Brown, ‘Library books defaced by prankster playwright Joe Orton go on show.’, The Guardian, 12 October 2011. p. 264. ‘over the years, we have become proud of Joe Orton as a leading literary figure with local associations’: D. J. Enright, quoted in John Gross (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2006), p. 336. p. 264. ‘all the beautiful red, white, blue and green shirts…obliterated beneath a pattern of fine cross- hatching in blue-black ink!’:Glyn Lloyd, quoted in John Gross (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2006), p. 320.

33 p. 264. ‘I wouldn’t know about that...but certainly in terms of fucking things up, he did a Grade A job on my cigarette cards’: Glyn Lloyd, quoted in John Gross (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, (Oxford: O.U.P., 2006), p. 320. p. 264. ‘being on the edge of things’: Philip Larkin, Channel 4 Television documentary, broadcast 2003, quoted in Stan Smith, Poetry and Displacement, (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007), p. 20. p. 265. ‘Mind your own fucking business’: Philip Larkin, letter to B. C. Bloomfield, 12 April 1985, in Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, (London: Faber, 1992), p. 740. p. 265. ‘cost-sphinctering coneheads’: Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, (New York: Random House, 2002), p. 109. p. 265. ‘for the right to read and grow intellectually, culturally and socially’, : Lee Hall, statement delivered to a public meeting, Newcastle, November 2012, quoted in Alison Flood, ‘Newcastle library closure plans outrage writers’, The Guardian, 21 November 2012. pp. 265-66. ‘It is a heritage that took decades and decades to come to fruition but will be...philistines of yourselves, but philistines of us all’: Lee Hall, statement delivered to a public meeting, Newcastle, November 2012, quoted in Alison Flood, ‘Newcastle library closure plans outrage writers’, The Guardian, 21 November 2012. p. 266. ‘The cost in educational underachievement would far outweigh any savings made by cuts’: quoted in Alison Flood, ‘Newcastle library closures attacked in open letter from authors’, The Guardian, 14 November 2012. p. 266. ‘refuge and a place of constant wonder’, ‘the thrill of being told I’d reached the age where I could have an adult ticket and take books from the adult fiction section’: Ian Rankin, quoted in Alison Flood, ‘Val McDermid and Ian Rankin join attack on swingeing library cuts’, The Guardian, 11 December 2015. p. 266. ‘We had been headed for university since we picked up Ladybird books’: Paul Mason, ‘The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed’, The Guardian, 5 April 2016. p. 266. ‘it’s a massacre, and at the expense of the children of Liverpool most of all’: quoted in Alison Flood, ‘Authors claim victory after Liverpool drops library closure plans’, The Guardian, 11 November 2014. p. 266. ‘In times of economic misery and unemployment...we need more not less consolation from libraries’: Mary Warnock, quoted in Nadia Khomami, ‘UK library closures and the fights to save them’, The Guardian, 17 December 2015.

34 p. 267. ‘enjoy the continuation of their flirtation in the library as they take down or replace some books of scientific interest from their shelves’: Umberto Eco, ‘Introduction’, in Candida Höfer, Libraries, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 14. p. 267. ‘What mattered to Panizzi was that every aspect of British life and thought be represented, so that the library could become a showcase of the nation itself’: Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 299. p. 268. ‘Every day the library is filled with, among others, people sleeping...doing almost anything except consulting the library’s books’: Judith Flanders, ‘The British Library’s Action Plan’, Times Literary Supplement, 2 September 2005. p. 270. ‘having been hastily scanned and badly checked for typographical errors’: Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 228. pp. 270-71. ‘a church jumble-sale bookstall, where gems and duds are blessed alike by the vicar because all have been donated’: Paul Duguid, ‘PG Tips’, Times Literary Supplement, 11 June 2004. p. 271. ‘The internet is like a library’: unpublished survey, March 2003, conducted by Andrew Madden, quoted in Andrew D. Madden, Jared Bryson and Joe Palimi, ‘Information Behavior in Pre- literate Societies’, in Amanda Spink & Charles Cole (eds), New Directions in Human Information Behavior, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), p. 47. p. 271. ‘because most of its users are men, and most of the talk is of sex and sport’: Andrew D. Madden, Jared Bryson and Joe Palimi, ‘Information Behavior in Pre-literate Societies’, in Amanda Spink & Charles Cole (eds), New Directions in Human Information Behavior, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), p. 51. p. 271. ‘For two weeks,’ one delegate said, ‘we have heard nothing but computers, computers, computers. A book would comfort me’: Louis B. Wright, The Folger Library, (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), p. 269. p. 274. ‘sang nursery rhymes to the granddaughter of the poet Krylov, ...‘merry and full of life…and went to Countess Razumovskaya’s glittering ball’: George Steiner, ‘Pushkin's date with death’, The Guardian, 14 March 1999. p. 274. ‘Lift me up, let us go higher, still higher’: Alexander Pushkin, quoted in Terry Breverton, Immortal Last Words, (London: Quercus Books, 2010). p. 274. ‘It is finished. I am going, I am going,’ then, falling back on his pillow, ‘I can hardly breathe, I am suffocating’: Alexander Pushkin, quoted in Terry Breverton, Immortal Last Words, (London: Quercus Books, 2010). p. 274. ‘It seemed to me that you and I were climbing up those shelves’: Alexander Pushkin, quoted in Terry Breverton, Immortal Last Words, (London: Quercus Books, 2010).

35 p. 274. ‘Farewell, friends’: Alexander Pushkin, quoted in Serena Vitale, Pushkin’s Button, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 247.

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