Here we delve a little deeper into my bookish obsessions. A little bit of odd, some book history, and of course honourable mentions to library history and the OED. It’s not sufficient to want a copy of the printed OED but I have also been fascinated by books about it and the history of the english language. Not to mention books about language, both real and fictional.

There sits my copy of Boswell’s biography of Samuel Johnson. Johnson was the editor of A Dictionary of the English Language, a facsimile I have sitting on a shelf elsewhere. Then there’s histories of reading, histories of libraries, and histories of bookish folk. And Walt Crawford. I like Walt and his continuing efforts to track, understand and write about libraries and matters pertinent to such. Here resides two volumes of his self-published survey of library bloggers.