Sitting in the same morning sun that so fascinated me in the previous
posts.
(They are normally kept in the shade – don’t worry book lovers!!)
“Last Essays of Elia” – first published in 1833. This book was printed in 1902 although it looks older. It has a written inscription inside from a “John Mair McKenzie” from Woodend, Kings Gate (Aberdeen, Scotland). Elia was a pseudonym used by Charles Lamb of London b1775 - d1834. They’re still pretty good essays.
“The Duty of Man”. Printed in 1812 and in pretty bad shape. I don’t much hold to its contents. In fact I find the whole god fearing diatribe mildly amusing….I doubt anything quite like this could be published today. The first page: “The Complete DUTY OF MAN or a system of doctrinal and practical Christianity to which are added forms of prayer and office of devotions for thr various circumstances of life. Designed for the use of families by Henry Venn AM. Rector of Yelling in Huntingdonshire and Chaplian to the Earl of Buchan” My goodness! Yelling indeed – the poor Earl!!!
“Companions of Columbus”. This edition is specially bound as a prize given by the Edinburgh Angus Club in 1844.. This is a brilliant book!! Printed in Temple Bar London and bound at number 35 South Bridge, Edinburgh. This documents the adventures of those that followed immediately in Columbus’ wake – Alonzo De Ojeda, Pedro A Nino, Chris Guerra. Vincente Yanez Pinzon etc.etc. And many outrages were they guilty of too!!!!
OK – swotty moment over and done with!!!
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Kateimi 64 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a new group called Antique Bookbinding, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
kuer90.1 54 months ago | reply
A great photo! I've included it - with attribution to you per the Creative Commons stipulations - on our talk show's web-page at www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuer/news.newsmain?action=arti.... We are an NPR affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Peter Kofler 47 months ago | reply
Thank you for the nice picture. I used it for a non commercial presentation about Practical Unit Testing (a quality related topic in Software engineering), given at the local Java Student User Group. It was the perfect motivation picture for the topic "Books". Thanks again.
SHINE «KWS» 47 months ago | reply
Nicely Captured ..
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