Found In Books 4: The Gentlemanly Book Trade

[callmemadam]

From a gentler age.



There, in the Broad, within whose booky house
Half England’s scholars nibble books or browse,
Where’er they wander blessed fortune theirs;
Books to the ceiling, other books upstairs;
Books, doubtless, in the cellar, and behind
Romantic bays, where iron ladders wind.

John Masefield

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Comments

[cornflowerbooks.livejournal.com]

A gentler age indeed! (Contrast that world with publishing/bookselling today as described in the comments on my latest post....)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

You certainly started something with that post!

I'm inclined to agree with the person who said that there never was a golden age.