Will Beharrellさんのイラストまとめ

This book of travel and exploration has been on a voyage of its own. Stolen from the @LinneanSociety library in 1976, it was spotted at auction nearly 40 years later and recovered. Now safely back on our shelves, it can be read and enjoyed by everyone. With supervision 😉

The @LinneanSociety copy of Edward Lear’s “Parrots” (1832) is now looking especially spruce, with a brand new box and binding (replacing an unlovely buckram binding from the early 60s). The new marbled papers are particularly nice. Thank you @talloaksfrom for making it possible.

Singing to the choir I know, but if you want to keep abreast of rare books and special collections matters you could do worse than @Jisc’s LIS-Rarebooks (a mailing list I help maintain). I promise 99% of the content will be “mildly interesting” or better☝️ https://t.co/AIYJXjGcnc

Bit of a Japanese theme this week. This copy of F.T. Piggott’s ‘Garden of Japan’ (1896) was so distractingly lovely that my predecessor stamped our name upside down on the title page.

Funny the little connections you find. This weighty “catalogue” of the willow trees at Woburn Abbey was a gift of the 6th Duke of Bedford. 120 years’ later his descendants would shelter the @LinneanSociety’s specimen collections at Woburn during the Blitz.