FYI@Librarian: Shelve a book and store a memory

Friday, February 2, 2018

Shelve a book and store a memory

Shelve a book and store a memory

Mays records that five copies of the First Folio are in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library in Oxford has one precious copy.

Henry Petroski in Book and the Bookshelf, a superb account of the history of books and bookshelves, states that it’s a natural law that books soon outgrow the shelves originally meant to house them. I was reminded of this recently when a publisher friend dropped in at home and looked into my study.