A Booklover's Companion

This short anthology gathers prose and verse about books, reading, libraries, and the habits of people who live among print. Compiled by Matthew Reisz, it draws on novelists, essayists, and diarists who describe buying, lending, hoarding, annotating, and losing books, as well as the rooms and shops where reading happens. Entries range from comic complaint about unread piles to reflections on how a private library shapes a life. The selection is arranged as a companion rather than a continuous argument: a sequence of brief encounters with the social and private uses of books, paired with paintings that take reading itself as their subject.

Bound in picture illustrated paper. Gilt enhanced maroon endpapers. No slipcase or dust-jacket.