this 10th day of May 1822 and reque?ting the per?on who should find it, if the book should be lo?t or go a?tray, to re?tore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Enni?corthy, county Wicklow, the fine?t place in the world.

What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of the inverted volumes?

The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.

Which volume was the largest in bulk?

Hozier’s History of the Russo-Turkish War.