If I Were Going to Collect Books...

I love books, but am trying to cut down on collecting anything - especially things that are heavy and take up space and are hard to move. I rarely read books twice, and most info I need I can look up online. That being said, these old books with fore-edge paintings fascinated me. I got to look at some of the non-erotic ones, but the erotic ones are a bit of a laugh. Just the idea of some old bachelor having one of these paintings commissioned for his friend's Christmas present makes me laugh. (The paintings don't show when you look at the side of the book until you turn back the page edges - as they would be if you left an open book on a table.)