'Shopkeepers even cut out their names from shop paper bags and pasted them onto their books’ endpapers to feign wealth and gain cultural capital, as seen in a book owned by William Straw, a grocer.'
@laurenohagan91 on the Edwardian bookplate fashion.
Thank you to Timothy Ryback @TheIHJR - for his generous review of #Burningthebooks in this month's @Lit_Review - I LOVE the cover too!! Confess I have bought a print copy to frame ... Bonfires of Reason | Literary Review | Issue 489 https://literaryreview.co.uk/bonfires-of-reason
“At a time of crisis, loneliness is not good” @TeamRedCircle https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2020/09/16/at-a-time-of-crisis-loneliness-is-not-good-teamredcircle/
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'Shopkeepers even cut out their names from shop paper bags and pasted them onto their books’ endpapers to feign wealth and gain cultural capital, as seen in a book owned by William Straw, a grocer.'
@laurenohagan91 on the Edwardian bookplate fashion.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/stepping-up-to-the-bookplate
Thank you to Timothy Ryback @TheIHJR - for his generous review of #Burningthebooks in this month's @Lit_Review - I LOVE the cover too!! Confess I have bought a print copy to frame ... Bonfires of Reason | Literary Review | Issue 489 https://literaryreview.co.uk/bonfires-of-reason
“At a time of crisis, loneliness is not good” @TeamRedCircle https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2020/09/16/at-a-time-of-crisis-loneliness-is-not-good-teamredcircle/