The Love of Books, Being the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Tiger, Richard De Bury

The Love of Books, Being the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

Tiger, Richard De Bury with Ernest Chester Thomas (Translator)

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Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, completed in 1345, is the great medieval treatise on the love of books. He was an obsessive book-collector who argued that no price should hinder someone from buying books. However, unlike many later bibliomaniacs, h...

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