mimes's

Updated: May 23, 2025

Henry James told me long afterwards a comical tale of how, being left to browse in Mimes's library one afternoon, he strayed into an alcove of pretty and inviting volumes, in sweet bindings, mellowed by age, and was presently terrified by the discovery that he was enmeshed in the toils of what bibliophiles term, I think, "Facetiae" of which Milnes had a collection unmatched among private book-owners.

Julian Hawthorne - Hawthorne and His Circle