...the calculation of a quarter's subscription" (Varma, 197). on Books and Reading," Lamb rhapsodizes, "How beautiful to a genuine lover of reading are the sullied leaves, and worn-out appearance, nay the very odour ... of an old 'Circulating Library' Tom Jones or Vicar of Wakefield!—...

...[them] out in gay apparel', Elia asserts, since 'The possession of them confers no distinction. The exterior of them (the things themselves being so common),...emotions, no tickling sense of property in the owner' (p. 196). Ironizing an antiquarian interest in rare books as investments or curiosities, and disclosing...

...review evenings, celebration floats and special summer reading are some of the high spots in the report. "How beautiful to a genuine lover of reading are the sullied leaves, and wornout appearance, nay, the very odor (beyond Russia), if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness,...