The Library of Lost Books - THE FINAL PART!

 ̶P̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶V̶I̶I̶I̶ THE FINAL PART, IT'S FIIINISHED!

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Please keep up to date with The Library of Lost Books, also on Facebook and Twitter, where you can see lots of lovely pictures of the rest of the books as well as more information on the project. All the books will be exhibited at the Library of Birmingham in November this year, but keep an eye out for them popping up elsewhere before then.

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The Library of Lost Books - part II

Another parcel came today from The Library of Lost Books. YES!

I now have some lovely pens to use from Sheaffer, who are supporting the project, 

and a book to incorporate into the lantern slide box.

 

The book is Castle Rackrent: The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth, and features illustrations by Chris Hammond. The book chronicles (from what I can gather) the lives of the Rackrent family.

I will probably dismantle the book, maybe make a smaller one out of it (lantern slide sized!). It has some really nice details; the cover, the library stickers and the Macmillan & Co. logo (notice the M's embossed on the cover too), not to mention the illustrations and their captions 

("If you could stand still for one single particle of a second")

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I have been thinking about the Glass family, homemade lantern slides, archives, and bananafish...amongst other things.

There's a great video here called 'How to make Handmade Lantern Slides' which is an instructional video from Indiana University, dated 1947.

The Library of Lost Books...the beginning

More info here.