“What may be most curious about Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature is the title itself.” The Public Domain Review on the curious world of scholar and man of letters Isaac D’Israeli.

Top: Frontispiece to Vol.I of Disraeli’s Amenities of Literature showing the Bodleian Library in Oxford —Source. Bottom: Frontispiece to Vol.II of Amenities of Literature showing King’s Library in the British Museum — Source.

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