A Degenerate Assemblage
Anthony Grafton: Bibliomania, 13 April 2023
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
by Denise Gigante.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, January 2023,978 0 300 24848 7 Show More
by Denise Gigante.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, January 2023,
“... after year from the lodes of ore in the libraries.The roots of this bookish postwar New York, as Denise Gigante shows in Book Madness, stretched back deep into the 19th century. Some of them also nourished Boston’s book culture – the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Boston Public Library as well as its private collections. To identify the ... ”
