I have borrowed a copy of Balzacs L'amour masque from my grandfather. It was originally owned by my great-grandmother and was printed in 1911 and has beautiful art noveau artwork in it. It is in a swedish translation, of course, since my french is terrible, but the swedish it is written in is archaic for my 2013 eyes, which makes it even more exciting. It is a piece of treasure, at least for me. I tried to do some research about the the book before I wrote this post, but surprisingly little was found. I could not even find an English title, and if it is the case that this book is translated to Swedish and not to English, I find it a bit strange since English is a much larger language than Swedish. Can anybody help me find information about this book?
Happy Fore-Edge Friday!✨ There’s nothing like a good gauffered and gilt edge… it makes any book feel like a treasure chest Gauffering is the technique of pressing a heated tool into the edges of a book to make an indentation; it’s similar to the way book covers are tooled! This lovely edge belongs to an 1861 edition of Eliza Cook’s Poems, part of my personal collection
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In 1982, the Swedish Association of Beer Brewers donated their collection of historical books about beer and beer brewing to Uppsala University Library in Sweden. This is part of the collection, which is notable for its collection of English, German and Swedish works on beer mainly from the 18th century. In total it consists of about 14 shelf meters and around 140 volumes.
Picture source here, from an open source study partially about the colelction.
