A Woodsrunner's Diary
18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY, HISTORICAL TREKKING, AND PERIOD WILDERNESS LIVING.
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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.
Tuesday 12 June 2018
The Surprising Practice of Binding Old Books With Scraps of Even Older Books.
The wood on this 1480 edition of the Vulgate bears the traces of a manuscript wrapped around it.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/book-waste-printed-garbage
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