Book Madness Pop-up & lift-the-flap books by whom Edith can't help

by whom Edith can't help but be intrigued

Some of the earlier chapters have been re-edited: those more recent contain a good deal of new material that has not been previously published

Featuring an author’s note

Working in service as a cook in a big house

Book Madness Pop-up & lift-the-flap books by whom Edith can't helpThe fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lambs library in 1848 Charles Lambs librarya heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friendscaused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book