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Sunday, March 8, 2009
327 year old book
A couple of years ago Dylan Williams' grandfather died. He had been a medieval literature scholar and left behind a lot of interesting old books. Dylan was allowed to go through the collection and pick out anything that interested him before the rest was donated to a library. Among the books he picked out were 2 copies of the book pictured here. Dylan kept one copy and was generous enough to give me the other. As far as we can tell, this book really is from 1682. Dylan's grandfather even left magazine clippings in the back of my copy describing the book and it's value and rarity. I think Dylan's copy is in better condition and mine seems to have been the the one for writing notes in. I did a quick search on the internet and didn't find any sign of reprints. The pictures below tell the rest of the story. There is an illustration on every left-hand page so I've posted some of my favorites. Click the images to go to it's page and then click the "All Sizes" button for a larger version.
Wow! That book is amazing!
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