They say time waits for no man, and that’s true – unless your name happens to be William Willett. It was because of Willett that I
was able to get my hands on a copy of the first edition of the book, which was published in London in 1857.

The book is a collection of essays by Willett, who was a journalist and a writer of fiction. He was also a member of the Athenaeum, a literary club in