The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History - Hardcover

A cabinet of wonders spanning centuries: manuscripts written in blood, books carved from bone, and literary artifacts of staggering strangeness.

The Madman's Library is a feast for the historically curious. These are real objects, real manuscripts, real acts of creation and obsession that escaped the normal channels of book publishing. Andrew Findlay has collected the evidence of how strange humans have always been willing to be in pursuit of the written word.

Faculty in literature, book history, and art history treasure this. It is also the gift for any colleague with an office full of rare or odd books.