“How the book got it’s jacket” sounds like a good title from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories yet it is an interesting question, when did books acquire their dust wrappers? Before the 1820’s the text of a book was often bound in a commissioned binding of the owners choice. If a cover was needed to … Read more
The Gift of Music or Books Recently someone asked me what I wanted for my birthday gift– new music I replied and then realised I hadn’t listen to music for quite a while. Music had always been really important to me. I’d often got lost in it. It could make me happy, moved – sad … Read more
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