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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonZ, post: 367520, member: 7623&quot;]I have a ten-volume first edition set of books by John Muir, circa 1916, which I purchased a while back. The seller advertised them as an &quot;untrimmed&quot; set which I took to mean that the page edges were untrimmed (&quot;deckle&quot; edges is the official term I believe?). When I received the set I found that the pages are not just untrimmed but many of them are also &quot;unopened&quot; (i.e., the individual pages were never separated from the adjacent ones, so the folds between these pages are still intact). I understand that this was often a normal result of book production in those days, with the expectation that the purchaser would separate the pages themselves with a knife. My question is, would this reduce the value and historic significance of these books if I were to separate the pages from each other? It would be nice to be able to read the books in their entirety at some point, but I certainly don&#039;t want to do that if it means destroying any value of the set. (I&#039;d much rather just pick up a later edition of the books for reading purposes and leave this set unmolested). Thanks for any info![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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