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I was surprised that I wrote so much about prices in my recent post about the unique copy of Louis-Lucien Bonaparte’s Dialects of England and Scotland presented to Henry Baird…
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A Book Unique in Several Dimensions
Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors compete at auction — and some of the ephemera made… -
Bawdy Songs and Sentimental Bookplates
We hoard our slang in dictionaries, but lexicographers, like the dragons of lore, steal their gems from others. In the nineteenth-century, people interested in such uncut words… -
The remarkable mind of magician Ricky Jay
The Lilly Library invites ne’er-do-wells, magicians, historians, and all who are curious to explore the life, research, and remarkable mind of scholar, actor, and magician Ricky Jay (1946-2018). -
Just Say the Word
If you supply schools with dictionaries and hope that every home with children will have a children’s dictionary handy, you must convince the children in question to use those…