ChubbyMonkey wrote:
The three I couldn't resist were Vols I, II and IV (if you ever find the right printing of Vol III in your travels, please think of me!) of Peregrine Pickle printed on 5th Oct 1773. They're all being held together by elastic bands (they were when I bought them) but it was only £4.50 for all three. How could I say no??
Odd volumes are hard to find, but to pick up the other 3 for £4.50 sounds like a real bargain. If you keep an eye out, you never know, it might turn up on one of the booksellers websites.
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Another particular favourite is an 'Every Woman's Doctor Book'. I haven't read it yet, but it sounds like it's going to be brilliant!
I don't have that one although I do have a couple of old medical books including a Home Doctor from the early 1800s. I was amazed when I read it that a lot of the advice was no different from today's.
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If you are ever in Lyme Regis, there is an amazing bookshop with loads and loads of old books (and a whole room of OS maps) where I picked up the first three.
Wow, sounds wonderful. The local booksellers here all know me pretty well, which doesn't always do a lot for my purse, but their prices are usually very good. It's a standing joke with some of them that I'm the only person they know whose face lights up when they say the book's in poor condition!
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I have also on my travels picked up a fairly newish cookery book (see the Joey's Cooking thread)
Was the the banana omelette one?
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Your collection sounds much more impressive than mine and I might have to be in awe - but I am quite proud of my one whole shelf of antique books thus far! (I also have a huge old Victorian Bible, but we didn't buy that because it was antique - 1806 IIRC - but more because Oxfam were keeping this beautiful old thing on the floor under their shelves

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The antiquarian collection isn't really that big, it's scattered around the house, but it would probably only fill one bookcase. Well probably quite a big bookcase if you included all the GOPs! I do have bookcases in every room except the bathroom and am constantly looking for new ways of introducing more without making the rooms look too full, but I have a lot of more modern stuff as well as the antiquarian books. Although I'm a lot more ruthless than I used to be, I'm still not very good at throwing books out.
The bookbinding is on hold at the moment as the flat, which is a very recent acquisition is way too exciting for me to be able to concentrate on anything else. It'll come into its own again in due course though. It always does.