A Degenerate Assemblage
Anthony Grafton: Bibliomania, 13 April 2023
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
by Denise Gigante.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, January 2023,978 0 300 24848 7 Show More
by Denise Gigante.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, January 2023,
“... value even to more obscure items such as the Irish writer Thomas Amory’s picaresque Life of John Buncle and The Triumphs of God’s Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murder, a popular collection of tales of murder and revenge by the 17th-century Exeter merchant whom Coleridge called ‘honest Murthereo-Maniacal ... ”