Arsenic and Old Books, I Mean, Lace, Part Three

You, Dear Reader, now, know both that only you can prevent forest fires and that you might wish to have examined, that lovely set of Victorian-era novels by Sir Walter Scott, you know, the ones with the vibrant slivers of green dye-cloth laid onto their spines and that feature the fanciful blue lettering and designs on their covers.

Previously, I touched on several ways in which 19th-century wallp...