Henry Hobhouse

Can you spot the difference?

issue 30 November 2002

FAUNA BRITANNICA
by Duff Hart-Davis
Weidenfeld, £30, pp. 415, ISBN 0297825321

Time was that this sort of confusion did not occur. In the days when ‘publishing was a business for gentlemen’, the aforesaid gents would meet for luncheon (‘Your Club or mine?’); they would agree that they would not each publish a book with the same title at the same time.

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