Posted 10 years ago
Kydur
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I've been collecting old books for a while now, to eventually populate an antique bookcase I've yet to acquire. I'm mostly in to ratty old books - the sort that look like they've seen a lot of use (or even abuse) - and especially the kind that have the ribbed spine bindings.
The most interesting ones so far is a legal book (2nd on the right - Maxwell on Statutes) that looks like it might even have blood on it... someone had a judge throw the book at them?! If only this book could talk...
The other, that I've highlighted in the other photos, is an interesting pre-feminist movement book on influential women in the Victorian age (as written by a male!):
"Daughters of genius; a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources."
The copyright is 1885 but the book was published in 1888. It has very detailed illustrations (or engravings) most all still with the thin protective translucent rice paper (?) attached. I found this at a thrift book store for $2.25.
The full PDF version can be found on the Internet Archives if anyone is interested: https://archive.org/details/daughtersofgeniu00part
Most all of my books so far are First Edition copies, but I've learned that this doesn't necessarily make them very valuable - other than the aesthetic value I place in them!
I too! love old books...I collect mainly children's but! any old book with heaps of character and charm is hard to pass up...we also! had a book case full of lovely old books and there just for the wonderful look and warmth you got from them...I will!!! one day hopefully read at least one or two of them....:-))))
But sometimes the smell isn't so good... and reading them old books often makes my eyes water!