The most significant events in the history of books on the 10th of November
1619: René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1624: Henry Wriothesley (believed to have been pronounced ‘rizzly’), 3rd Earl of Southampton, dies. He is the dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece and probable ‘Fair Youth’ of the Bard’s Sonnets.