For those that enjoy giving books as gifts, you'll love this intriguing website posting inscriptions from a variety of books. Here's one of the inscriptions:
“July 3, 1892
When in my grave I lonely sleep,
And the weeping willows o’er [me] weep,
Tis then dear friend and not before,
That I will think of thee no more.”
An 1879 copy of McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader.
Found at the Georgetown Library Book Sale in Washington, DC. April 2005.
1 comment:
I've always been intrigued by book inscriptions at second hand stores but I could never bring myself to write in a book. It's painful to put a little stamp. Very cool to read though.
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