Carefully bound books with elegant hardback covers, and internal drawings and illustrations, have always been things of beauty that people have collected for centuries. But with such instant access to information online now, it is sometimes easy to forget how important books are – and were – as purveyors and repositories of knowledge, history and literature. Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth Summer Rare Book and Collectors’ sale on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 23rd-25th is one of two books, documents and printed ephemera sales, the Co Kilkenny auctioneer holds each year. With about 1,300 lots in the three-day live and online sale,...