The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...

In the March/April issue, I devoted this space to Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, published by Yale University Press and edited by Leah Price, a scholar at Harvard. This column ...

MY SECRET LIFE (11 vols. bound as 2). Anonymous. 2,359 pages. Grove. $30. The entreporneurs of Grove Press have at last struck real pay dirt, the anti-Comstock lode of lewd literature. It should make ...

Deanna Raybourn takes us back to Victorian times in “Sinister Revenge,” the latest novel in her Veronica Speedwell series. Speedwell, a scientist, lepidopterist or butterfly collector, and lady ...

SAMUEL BUTLER (242 pp.)—Philip Henderson—Indiana University ($3.75). “A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born. It is then he insists on setting up a ...

If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

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