Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Books once more

I had a few books in the post this week, nothing to excite you lot. But I did get this beautiful bit of Gregynog typography framed for the office:


It should impress Mark: thousands of his 15,000 books were bought solely for their pulp covers. 

1 comment:

Zoot Horn said...

Famous visitors to the Dark Place.
I quote verbatim from a BBC website feature on spitting:
"Here I sitting behind in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at all”
Diarist Samuel Pepys
On spitting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13134283