Who said: "I may have too many books, but I don‟t have enough"? Well, I have too many books, and more than enough - and something must be done about it. But what? Where to begin? How does one reduce a lifetime‟s collection with a minimum of distress? The following methods occurred to me the … Continue reading The Painful Art of Weeding
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Over the years I have acquired a number of bookmarks. Totalling around 110, from six countries, they range in subject from book-shops and libraries to natural history, local history, banking and the role of government departments. Many are small works of art. Literature on bookmarks is not great. Do other people collect them? There seems … Continue reading Collecting Bookmarks
Neil Radford writes: "The Epitaph for collectors from an unknown writer ... ‟ on p.119 of the September 2000 issue of Biblionews is in fact a slight adaptation of Benjamin Franklin's epitaph. He wrote it for his tombstone, but it was not used (I do not know why). The original text is as follows: The … Continue reading Notes & Queries
Joseph Rosenblum. Practice to Deceive: The Amazing Stories of Literary Forgery’s Most Notorious Practitioners. Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2000, 370 pp. Hardback, ISBN: 1-58456-01 0-X. $US39.95. This is a handsome publication, solidly and attractively bound, printed on acid-free paper, well illustrated with portraits of most of those whose stories it tells. Literary frauds … Continue reading Book Review