I'll second the Altick recommendation -- I read it right at the
beginning of my grad student career, and it changed my life; I had the
pleasure of telling him this when he visited Toronto many years later. I
have pressed it on many a subsequent grad student. It is full of
bibliographical and book history information and anecdotes, and it
stands up very well after many decades. A sheer delight! Germaine
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto),
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA
g.warkentin@utoronto.ca (fax number on request)
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