Thursday, July 20, 2006

Ephemera can be such fun...


I have a really nice copy of AE Newton's, The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections. It was part of a library of a well known Newton collector and has some wonderful bit laid into it (letter from AM bookstore to the original buyer, letter from Newton on the sales and reprint, etc., etc. My favorite, however, is the laid in "censored plate" of a charicature of Dr. Johnson that was deemed so offensive at the time that it was struck before publication. The title, as can be seen, is "Bossy Bounce Preparing for the Scotch Professors to Kiss." Personally, I think it is charmingly subtle *g*.

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