Family Heirloom
Aug. 15th, 2022 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I don't know quite how it happened but I suppose by inheritance I somehow come to have in my possession a Third Edition (1765) of The Journal of George Fox- founder of The Society of Friends. I was thinking I might smuggle it into the library of the Eastbourne Meeting House and leave it there because, I told myself, "I'll never read it."
And myself said, " Hang on a minute. Why do you think that?"
"O, come on," I said, "It's the size of one of those old-style family Bibles. I'd need to lectern to support it. Also the end boards have come away from the spine. It's a curio...nothing more..."
"Tut-tut," said Myself, "And you fancy yourself an antiquarian."
"Yes, but..."
"And you want to be a Quaker..."
"Yes..."
"So do you really think it came into your hands by accident?"
And myself said, " Hang on a minute. Why do you think that?"
"O, come on," I said, "It's the size of one of those old-style family Bibles. I'd need to lectern to support it. Also the end boards have come away from the spine. It's a curio...nothing more..."
"Tut-tut," said Myself, "And you fancy yourself an antiquarian."
"Yes, but..."
"And you want to be a Quaker..."
"Yes..."
"So do you really think it came into your hands by accident?"
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Date: 2022-08-15 09:51 am (UTC)I have to admit that I covet this edition- worthy of the attention of a bookbinder, I'd say.
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Date: 2022-08-15 10:19 am (UTC)It could certainly do with some TLC