The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Richard de Bury

The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

Richard de Bury with E. C. Thomas (Translator)

132 pages paperback 1344

5 editions

nonfiction classics informative reflective slow-paced
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A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commu...

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