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The Perfect Book?

Are you a bibliophile in search of the perfect book? Are you a perfectionist like I am? Then read on. The following excerpt is taken from a fantasic book for readers called A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury, edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan (Times Books, 1999). The Perfect Book William Keddie The Foulis’s edition of classical works were much praised by scholars and collectors in the nineteenth century. The celebrated Glasgow publishers once attempted to issue a book which should be perfect specimen of...