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<p>[QUOTE="RachelW, post: 4538088, member: 15376"]Good evening all! Just wanted to share my newest addition to my small antique book collection, The Works of William Shakspeare with Photographs, 1892.</p><p><br /></p><p>More questions make themselves known the more I look into this book. Apparently there are 2 versions of this made in the 1890s, the 'Universal', and the 'Albion'. This is niether, instead its part of the 'Imperial Poets' series. There is nothing further I could find on this, nor could I locate an identical copy, few are green and none have this front design.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401471[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]401472[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is gold leaf isn't it? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]401473[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401474[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm also trying to get to the bottom of its story. I thought originally the mostly gone sticker saying 'librarie.....-onti, Paris' pointed to the Bibliotheque Mazarine, located on the Quai de Conti, Paris. However, librarie means book store in French, not library. Then I turned to the small sticker on the cover of the book, but there is no mention of that store in any location ending with 'onti', and the address listed only turns up that same sticker on a different book that's been cataloged. I can find no real mention or history of the store at all. My thought is that the Mazarine had at one point a bookstore to recycle books and this was one of them. I don't know at what point those stickers would have been placed, but the librarie one does look rather old. Is there somewhere I can look thats not a google search to find out more?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401475[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RachelW, post: 4538088, member: 15376"]Good evening all! Just wanted to share my newest addition to my small antique book collection, The Works of William Shakspeare with Photographs, 1892. More questions make themselves known the more I look into this book. Apparently there are 2 versions of this made in the 1890s, the 'Universal', and the 'Albion'. This is niether, instead its part of the 'Imperial Poets' series. There is nothing further I could find on this, nor could I locate an identical copy, few are green and none have this front design. [ATTACH=full]401471[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]401472[/ATTACH] This is gold leaf isn't it? [ATTACH=full]401473[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]401474[/ATTACH] I'm also trying to get to the bottom of its story. I thought originally the mostly gone sticker saying 'librarie.....-onti, Paris' pointed to the Bibliotheque Mazarine, located on the Quai de Conti, Paris. However, librarie means book store in French, not library. Then I turned to the small sticker on the cover of the book, but there is no mention of that store in any location ending with 'onti', and the address listed only turns up that same sticker on a different book that's been cataloged. I can find no real mention or history of the store at all. My thought is that the Mazarine had at one point a bookstore to recycle books and this was one of them. I don't know at what point those stickers would have been placed, but the librarie one does look rather old. Is there somewhere I can look thats not a google search to find out more? [ATTACH=full]401475[/ATTACH] Thank you![/QUOTE]
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