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Alpennia: the glamor shots
May. 26th, 2014 10:50 amMy alpennia.com website guru needs an "icon" to represent me/my books on the site. After relatively little brainstorming, I decided that the cover theme from Daughter of Mystery of the antique book + rose was just about perfect for the whole series. And since I have no shortage of antique books and roses, I've been doing a photoshoot and now have about 100 images to sort through. When I have it down to half a dozen or so, maybe I'll post them and ask for input.
I confess that the books auditioning for the job only date to the 1870-90s. I have several older but they weren't as presentable, e.g., severe cover or spine damage.) The three contenders are a Welsh Bible with a gift-inscription dating to 1879 (no printing date, alas), Prys's English-Welsh dictionary from 1899, and an 1885 printing of Friedrich Ludwig Stamm's edition of Ulfilas with accompanying glossary and grammar of the Gothic language.
The oldest book in my collection is Thomas Richards' 1753 Antiqua Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus (Welsh-English dictionary), which would have been perfect for the date, but it lacks covers and is in horrible condition. It was a gift from an acquaintance who found it in his late grandfather's attic. I was the only person he knew who he thought would have any appreciation for it. Back during the Oakland Hills Fire, when I was doing a "practice pack" of what I would put in the suitcase for an evacuation, that book was included. Just because.
I confess that the books auditioning for the job only date to the 1870-90s. I have several older but they weren't as presentable, e.g., severe cover or spine damage.) The three contenders are a Welsh Bible with a gift-inscription dating to 1879 (no printing date, alas), Prys's English-Welsh dictionary from 1899, and an 1885 printing of Friedrich Ludwig Stamm's edition of Ulfilas with accompanying glossary and grammar of the Gothic language.
The oldest book in my collection is Thomas Richards' 1753 Antiqua Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus (Welsh-English dictionary), which would have been perfect for the date, but it lacks covers and is in horrible condition. It was a gift from an acquaintance who found it in his late grandfather's attic. I was the only person he knew who he thought would have any appreciation for it. Back during the Oakland Hills Fire, when I was doing a "practice pack" of what I would put in the suitcase for an evacuation, that book was included. Just because.
