Book MadnessThe fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lambs library in 1848 Charles Lambs librarya heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friendscaused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book