A review by kerrymorgan
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham

3.0

Occasionally a little dry and academic - I admit to skimming parts - but some wonderfully interesting and amusing facts and anecdotes that more than made up for the denser bits. I particularly enjoyed the 17th century bookseller who had tiny stoves attached to his arms to make reading easy in the cold...and the fact that Ruskin used a saw to make all his books the same height. Written by someone for whom the physical book and the art of bookselling are clearly everything.