Booking PleasuresThe covetous foraging for old and rare books, is how Matthews defines booking. It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding them to ones personal library, then reading them as instruments of light and measure in a murky and chaotic world. The understanding that books are intrinsic to civilized living is wisdom as old as civilization itself; it is affirmed here, in their various ways, by the people who inspire and inhabit these pages: