Apr. 16th, 2007

nebroadwe: From "The Magdalen Reading" by Rogier van der Weyden.  (Default)
Found this morning a ms. note in pencil on the front free endpaper of a very much knocked-about copy of The Roman Actor (1629) by Philip Massinger:
Imperfect and poor -- my own dear sister did it up in this way. I taught her bookbinding and she rapidly excelled her master in this as in many things else --
Awww. That's so sweet. (No, really: "imperfect and poor" refers to the state of the bookblock, not the binding itself.)

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nebroadwe: From "The Magdalen Reading" by Rogier van der Weyden.  (Default)
The Magdalen Reading

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