Library Stuff

Jul 16, 2011 17:03

The a-e got in a few more Levenger BookBoxes (modular wooden bookcases that are, well, box-shaped). It's enabled him to get some things off the floor, and/or sorted better and/or more readily available. (He did find where he'd put his copy of Rovere's "Howe and Hummell: Their True and Scandalous History," a hilarious book about two crooked Victorian-era lawyers of New York.)

He's managed to accumulate 91 of the first 100 volumes of Punch, from 1841 to 1891. Covers quite a lot of ground (a good chunk of the Victorian era, the Civil War, the Crimean War, the Franco-Prussian War, &c.). Sir John Tenniel, perhaps better remembered as the artist for the "Alice" books, was the editorial cartoonist for most of that run. In point of fact, one of the latest volumes the a-e got was the one with the famous "Dropping the Pilot" cartoon involving Otto von Bismarck.

He's missing 5 from the 1845-1851 run, plus an 1866, 1867, 1871 and 1884 volume each.

He has accumulated a pawful of extra volumes, so if there are any lovers of Victoriana out there, drop me a line. I'd sell the volume, cheap ($15+ shipping) or do some trading.
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