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Good morning, booklovers! This is Slightly Foxed (@FoxedQuarterly) calling in from London live on the Petersfield Bookshop feed. We’re an indie publisher & literary quarterly, & we’re thrilled to be chatting all things bookish with you today for our #FoxedTakeover
Today's broken book is more like a 'badly stuck back together' book... The Floral World and Garden Guide edited by Shirley Hibberd from 1872...
...massively popular at the time as demonstrated by the fact this is already the 9th edition.
A bundle of old and not-old old maps in this afternoon. The colouring on the old Bartholomew's is always so attractive...
If you have never seen Rex Whistler's both way up faces before then....
Two artists contribute to this edition of The Arabian Nights, neither are as well known as they should be perhaps. René Bull provides colour plates...