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Rare diversions: What drives people to steal precious books?
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Formerly Rare or under done. Sunday, March 8, 2009. What drives people to steal precious books? Article from the Financial Times. Focuses on the theft of rare books. But what about the statement that ' “inside jobs” account for upwards of 70 per cent of all library theft in Europe and 80 per cent in the US.'. How do we feel about that statement and the idea of increased internal security? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). All that mankind has done, thought or gained or been: it is lying as in magic.
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Rare diversions: September 2008
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Formerly Rare or under done. Thursday, September 11, 2008. This book is a real stinker! Bloomsbury Auctions in New York has a really interesting item for sale. Full calf binding with an elaborate blind-tooling! Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Fight to stop rare books sell-off. According to an article on BBC News live. Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 'Cardiff Council could eventually sell up to 18,000 items dating from the 15th Century at auction to raise money for improvements in library services.'. I would be ...
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Rare diversions: November 2008
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Formerly Rare or under done. Wednesday, November 19, 2008. In Handle this Book! The New York Times describes the presentation of rare books and manuscripts to History undergraduates. There's nothing like the smell of old books, the sound as you flick through the pages of a book made from cloth paper or reading the scribbled notes and signatures of previous owners! This is the untidy scrawl of a previous owner of the 1640 edition of Parkinson's Herbal. Remember well and bear in mind. Reminds us of how imp...
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Rare diversions: Rimini Antiphonal in glorious colour!
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Formerly Rare or under done. Monday, June 1, 2009. Rimini Antiphonal in glorious colour! In 2007 the Rimini Antiphonal. 5 Folio 71r – Letter ‘E’ illustrating Christ blessing four saints. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). All that mankind has done, thought or gained or been: it is lying as in magic. Preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) - Heroes and Hero Worship. Rimini Antiphonal in glorious colour! Rare Books and Manuscripts Section.
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Rare diversions: Hagred's book of the month
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Formerly Rare or under done. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Hagred's book of the month. The rare book collections are receiving some well deserved attention in the Library's eRecords project. Recently completed are full records for all items in the Richardson collection of bibles, early printed books and manuscripts. A favourite item recently catalogued online is Vlyssis Aldrovandi patricii Bononiensis Serpentum, et draconu[m] historiae libri duo. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hagreds book of the month.
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Rare diversions: April 2009
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Formerly Rare or under done. Sunday, April 19, 2009. The Boston Public Library has launched a new online exhibition. On the Edge - The Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Painting. Fore-edge painting is where an image is painted on the fore-edge of the book. When the edges are fanned the image appears. When the book is closed the image disappears. Unless we fan the item, would we know? Would the catalogue card be annotated? We certainly haven't digitised images from any of our fore-edge paintings! The Fine Books Blog.
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Patrick Spedding: June 2013
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Sunday, 30 June 2013. Good Paper, Crappy Paper, Large Paper etc. I have been examining eighteenth-century auction catalogues and was puzzled by an abbreviation I found in one of them: "Ch. opt." After a lot of faffing about online I established only that this was an abbreviation of "Chart. opt."—which my little Latin suggested was Paper Best [optima/optimal]. What isn't clear is what exactly this implied beyond "best." Thomas Frognall Dibdin writes ( here. Charta cacata = crappy paper or toilet paper.
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Patrick Spedding: Wall of Shame
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Thursday, 26 February 2015. On this page I plan on memorialising some of the negative, dismissive, outrageous and idiotic statements made about Eliza Haywood and her (actual or putative) works. (I have already discussed Haywood's reputation before the twentieth century, and collected together some of the more positive statements made about Haywood here. Jonathan Swift [letter dated 26 October 1731], in Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk. 1824), 2.29 ( here. In The Monthly Review. The prod...
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Patrick Spedding: September 2013
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Thursday, 12 September 2013. Contemporary Reviews of Haywood's New Present for a Servant-Maid (1771). Below are transcripts of two contemporary reviews of Eliza Haywood's A New Present for a Servant-Maid. 1771), a revision of A Present for a Servant-Maid. 1743), with links to the original texts (now on Google Books). See here. For a complete list of early reviews of Haywood's works available online. A New Present for a Servant-Maid. 46 (April 1772): 463 (Article 59)—online here. Tuesday, 10 September 2013.
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Patrick Spedding: September 2014
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Thursday, 18 September 2014. More on a Popular 18C Tailpiece Design. In January I did a post ( here. On an eighteenth-century printer's ornament design, which appears in two ornaments by Thomas Gardner (T03 and T04; used 1735–56) and another used by T. Saint in 1785. Printed for Benjamin Motte. Jonathan Magus has pointed out that a very similar pomander ornament appears in Henry Plomer, English Printers Ornaments. 1924), 227 (no.109)—where it is described as having been owned by Cornelius Crown...So I ha...
