The anatomy of bibliomania
Jackson inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania ("a genial mania, less harmful than the sanity of the sane"). His commentary addresses why we read, where we read (on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet -- this has "a long but mostly unrecorded history"--In bed, and in prison), and what happens to us when we read. He touches on bindings, bookworms, libraries, and the sport of book hunting, as well as the behavior of borrowers, embezzlers, thieves, and collectors. Francis Bacon, Anatole France, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leigh Hunt, Marcel Proust, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, and scores of other luminaries chime in on books and their love for them
Print Book, English, 2001
1st Illinois pbk. [ed.] View all formats and editions
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2001
668 pages ; 23 cm
9780252070433, 0252070437
46935873
Of Books in General
Of Their Morphology and Dimensions
The Pleasure of Books
The Art of Reading
Of Fellowship
Of The Reading of Books
Study and Book-Learning
Of The Uses of Books
Of The Bibliophagi or Book-Eaters
Of Book-Drinkers
A Pageant of Bookmen
How Bookmen Conquer Time and Place
The Influence of Books
Books Pharmaceutically Disposed
The Origin of a Species
Libraries and the Care of Books
Borrowers, Biblioklepts and Bestowers
The Caparisoning of Books
The Misfortune of Books
A Digression of Book Worms
Of Book-Hunting
Of Desirable Books
Of Bibliomania or Book-Madness
The Symptoms of Bibliomania
The Causes of Bibliomania
Do Bibliomaniacs Read Their Books?
Varieties of Bibliomania
Of Grangeritis
The Cure of Bibliomania
Of Bibliophily
The Five Ports of Book-Love
Bibliophily Triumphant
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, 1950