forty-and-one

Updated: May 11, 2025

The day was one naturally devoted to hospitality, being the birthday of the reigning monarch, George III.; but this the historian passes unnoticed, the object of all-absorbing interest being the great conflict of the Roxburghe book-sale, then raging through its forty-and-one days. After some forty pages of this sort of matter, we get another little peep at this momentous dinner-party.

John Hill Burton - The Book-Hunter: A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author