Tag: illustrations
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Cataloguing update : botanical discoveries
Read more: Cataloguing update : botanical discoveriesMy latest cataloguing discovery is that two books about flowers can tell us a lot about the expanse of Heythrop’s heritage collections. I catalogued these books about botanicals in the past couple of months and realised they each showcase different strengths in the collection.
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Spotlight: Passion Play (1900)
Read more: Spotlight: Passion Play (1900)You might not believe how I stumbled across this one. I was searching for something on the database / online platform of Crown (one of our off-site store companies), and came across the following:
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Spotlight: Beautiful 1915 book cover
Read more: Spotlight: Beautiful 1915 book coverIn December 2023, I was going through a box of books transferred to us, and had this gem of a 1915 books on my desk: Title The little flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi / translated from the Italian, and edited by Cardinal Manning. Imprint London ; Boston : T.N. Foulis, 1915. Description 302, [l]…