• It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

    John Hill Burton: It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.
    John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood