That's a good story Paul - and good to see that the books still have pride of place.
Chris On 9 March 2014 20:50, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > The upper shelf of my living room bookcase, far right side, holds some of my > favorite volumes. All invoke memories of my uncle, Frank Oswald, who died of > cancer way before his time, almost 40 years ago. Uncle Frank was a lover of > books and I always looked forward to the volumes he would choose for me at > Christmas and on my birthday. > > Frank had fought in World War Ii and was stationed in London toward the end > of the war. While there, he bought a number of nineteenth century volumes at > a London used-book store. A few years before he died, when I was working on > my M.A. in English Lit at the University of Chicago, he bought me the New > Temple Shakespeare volumes. Published by J.M. Dent of London in 1935 and > edited by M.R. Ridley, the New Temple Shakespeare includes scholarly > annotation and a glossary of Elizabethan English. And they're beautifully > printed on fine paper. Knowing that Plutarch's Lives -- the source of some > Shakespearian plots -- is central to the study of the bard, Frank also gave > me his 1864 volume of Plutarch, as translated by Langhorne. > > In later years, my mother gave me some of the other treasures that Frank had > found in London. All were printed between 1860 and 1905. They share the top > shelf with Langhorne, Plutarch and Will. Among them is a volume of Philip > Freneau poetry. Freneau was a poet of the American revolution, who isn't > widely read these days and his work isn't highly regarded by scholars, but > there was a personal connection: in the 1980s I lived just down the road from > Freneau's birthplace. This collection was printed in London in 1861, but it > can't be read in full, because the folios were never cut apart, so only two > of every four pages can be read. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17704028&size=lg > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
