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The Love Of Books
The Philobiblon Of Richard De Bury
Translator: Ernest ChesterThomas
Tiger Of The Stripe (United Kingdom), 2009
Paperback, 160 pages
Size: 203x127 mm
ISBN: 9781904799412
ISBN-10: 1904799418
List price: £9.00
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The Love Of Books
Richard de Bury's "Philobiblon", completed in 1345, is the great medieval treatise on the love of books. He was an obsessive book-collector who argued that no price should hinder someone from buying books. However, unlike many later bibliomaniacs, he appreciated them for their true value, as a sources of wisdom, rather than as artefacts.

