A Book of Days: Wisdom Through the Seasons

by Elizabeth Pepper

This elegant book of days presents 1,700 gemlike quotations dealing with all aspects of human life. Drawn from every source imaginable--from man's earliest records to modern times, from the ridiculous to the sublime, from Aristotle to Thurber--the quotes are arranged chronologically beginning with Spring and Youth and ending with Winter and Rest. Illustrated with 200 woodcuts from 16th-century incunabula.

193 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1996