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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 17164, member: 25"]Inspired by pictures of other people's clutter, I looked in a box that looked like a pile of books and a carrier bag, and top of the heap was this 1670 2nd edition of 'Parable of the Pilgrim' by Symon Patrick B.D. printed 'at the sign of the Three Daggers in Fleet Street'.</p><p><br /></p><p>Im not much on moral platitudes but I'll read at least some of it for the flavour of the period. It seems to be pretty rare, the only comparable I could find was a 4th edition in inferior condition on Abebooks that the seller wanted £150 for, and apart from a slight water stain mine is soundly bound and little worn.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has the bookplate of an Irish baronet from about 1800, somehow I bought a stack of books from the same library that had remained together </p><p>for 200 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]4249[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]4250[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]4251[/ATTACH] </p><p>Books are good at growing old gracefully if left more or less undisturbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 17164, member: 25"]Inspired by pictures of other people's clutter, I looked in a box that looked like a pile of books and a carrier bag, and top of the heap was this 1670 2nd edition of 'Parable of the Pilgrim' by Symon Patrick B.D. printed 'at the sign of the Three Daggers in Fleet Street'. Im not much on moral platitudes but I'll read at least some of it for the flavour of the period. It seems to be pretty rare, the only comparable I could find was a 4th edition in inferior condition on Abebooks that the seller wanted £150 for, and apart from a slight water stain mine is soundly bound and little worn. It has the bookplate of an Irish baronet from about 1800, somehow I bought a stack of books from the same library that had remained together for 200 years. [ATTACH=full]4249[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]4250[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]4251[/ATTACH] Books are good at growing old gracefully if left more or less undisturbed.[/QUOTE]
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