Fly-by-night: Sweetness and Light Part II

Sunday, 27 February 2011

Sweetness and Light Part II

"For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labour and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is, that, instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to till our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light."

Jonathan Swift, An Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library (London: John Nutt, 1704).

London: Charles Bathurst, 1751

In part I a couple of "dirt and poison" books from Harlequin were shown. Here are two from Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd's News Stand Library imprint.