A Woodsrunner's Diary
18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY, HISTORICAL TREKKING, AND PERIOD WILDERNESS LIVING.
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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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