lmao who else has a first edition 82 year old book of poems printed

>>8853921
i have a first edition of Brideshead Revisited that i got for $2, and i have another of this book called Adventures Of Captain Kettle from 1898

>>8853935
me too, with the jacket. I also have a 1st. ed. of For Whom The Bells Toll with jacket I got from Goodwill for 3 dollars. I forgot how much Brideshead was tho.

>>8853921
I have an 1805 Leipzig edition of Aeschylus in the original with running Latin translation.

>>8854355
*Æschylus

>>8854355
Does it have any nice illustration plates?

>>8855995
No, sorry. It does have the fragments and ~200 pages of annoatations though.

>>8856024
Thats a scholar's scholar version of it. Its probably for the best though as that no doubt ensured it was preserved and not cut up.

>>8856673
If it were so scholarly would they really need to include the translation?

>>8856681
Of course, to allow them to critque its accuracy

>>8856725
??

>>8853921
I have a first edition Gutenberg print of the Bible

>>8856743
How intact is it and how did you/ your family come to possess it?

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>>8853921
theres a lot of cool old books at my uni library

should I steal them lads