On 10 Mar 2014, at 00:52, "John" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/9/2014 4:50 PM, Paul Stenquist 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 > > I wonder if you could use something like an endoscope to scan the uncut pages > without damaging them & save the text in some electronic format? > > Seems to me that might be a case where you *could* "have your cake & eat it > too". >
Gotta be a lot easier just to buy a cheaper edition of the book. B -- 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.
