Retrieved from: someone else's library0763623296, 2003
Suggested by: me when I cataloged our copy
My Ratings: 10 Merit, 6 Interest, 8 Fun
No, I'm not all that interested in dragons, though I certainly know people who are. This is just one of those books that grabs you by the eyeballs and forces you to look inside.
It is ostensibly a "facsimile of an original, published on a print run of 100 copies in 1895" by someone named Dr. Ernest Drake. [The actual writer appears to be Dugald A. Steer, B.A. (Brist.), S.A.S.D.] The illustrations are wonderful, and it's quite clever: laid out like a site notebook, with letters in envelopes stuck to the pages, an 'actual' dragon eyeball, skin from assorted dragons, and a small sample of 'dragon dust.'
It's a lovely book, lovingly created and put together, and fun to read.
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