{"product_id":"the-anatomy-of-bibliomania-9780252070433","title":"The Anatomy of Bibliomania","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unmitigated delight for any bibliophile  Holbrook Jacksons Anatomy of Bibliomania is the cornerstone of his indispensable trio of books on \"the usefulness  purpose  and pleasures that proceed from books.\"  The Anatomy of Bibliomania begins at the beginning  when books first started to appear  and gives book lovers the solace and company of book lovers from ancient Rome  the Renaissance  and the Romantics. 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\"). With deliciously understated wit  he comments on 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.  Unlike most manias  bibliomania is an ennobling affliction  worth cultivating  improving  and enjoying to its heights and depths. Entertaining as well as instructive  The Anatomy of Bibliomania is a book no book lover--and certainly no bibliomaniac--can afford to be without.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646879293493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252070437","price":88.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252070433.jpg?v=1781679616","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-anatomy-of-bibliomania-9780252070433","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}