Re: [BKARTS] Books about books

[Guffey <dguff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of my favorite (I enjoyed her binding techniques as well as the story 
line):

The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga

Synopses & Reviews (copied from www.powells.com)
Publisher Comments:
"I was twenty-nine years old when the Arno flooded its banks on Friday 4 
November 1966. On Tuesday I decided to go to Italy, to offer my services as 
a humble book conservator, to save whatever could be saved, including 
myself."

The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to 
Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art from the Arno's flooded 
banks. American volunteer Margot Harrington was one of them, finding her 
niche in the waterlogged library of a Carmelite convent. For within its 
walls she discovered a priceless Renaissance masterwork: a sensuous volume 
of sixteen erotic poems and drawings.

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