Useful for the mechanics rather than the romance: how headings were chosen, why the index mattered more than the entries, and how little of it was ever meant to be read straight through.
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Every catalogue is an argument about what matters, pretending to be a list.
Unfashionable and correct. Every layer you add between the text and the reader is a layer that has to survive twenty years of nobody maintaining it.