I knew, therefore, that this thing, this Book of Hours, was a rare and beautiful expression of man's attempt to imprison heaven's wonder in the cage of form... Leonard Umberton is an obsessive collector of books. For decades, he has been yearning for the legendary Mexe Book of Hours, an illuminated script produced in the … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Die by the Book by Laurence Meynell (1966) →