the numerous engravings themselves are of increasing value.
Anybody who acts on this hint I shall hunt down and kill.
Here's my Ebay object of lust. Note that this Melbourne was both the unfortunate husband of Lady Caroline Lamb and the father-figure to whom Queen Victoria was devoted, precipitating the Bedchamber Crisis.
Anybody who acts on this hint I shall hunt down and kill.
Argh, I know, right? Just because a book happens to have pretty pictures in doesn't give you the right to cut them all out. It's not on when you're three years old *or* thirty.
A complete Audubon set came on the market a couple of years ago and they said it was bound to be broken up into plates because nobody could afford it otherwise. Damn it.
My college has a double-elephant folio of Volume I (they didn't pay for it, so never got volume II) and it is kept in a large case with pages turned regularly. Awe-inspiring, and I mean that literally.
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Date: 2008-09-26 02:20 pm (UTC)the numerous engravings themselves are of increasing value.
Anybody who acts on this hint I shall hunt down and kill.
Here's my Ebay object of lust. Note that this Melbourne was both the unfortunate husband of Lady Caroline Lamb and the father-figure to whom Queen Victoria was devoted, precipitating the Bedchamber Crisis.
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Date: 2008-09-26 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-26 04:56 pm (UTC)Argh, I know, right? Just because a book happens to have pretty pictures in doesn't give you the right to cut them all out. It's not on when you're three years old *or* thirty.
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Date: 2008-09-26 08:30 pm (UTC)My college has a double-elephant folio of Volume I (they didn't pay for it, so never got volume II) and it is kept in a large case with pages turned regularly. Awe-inspiring, and I mean that literally.