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Before I left the city I used to work at the big reference library, where behind the walls in the closed stacks there were additional half-floors not apparent to the public (the 5-story building actually had 10 levels, 5 hidden). The closed stacks themselves are warren-like. It was like working in a Borges story.

My first day there I was warned that if I should get lost in them, I could stay put and hope that someone found me based on where the schedule said I should be, or try to find on outer wall and keep following it. Just leave leave my book cart behind and find a wall (for the love of god). But to be honest, getting lost was a pleasure. I have no doubt about the narcotic power of old books.
 
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Yesterday I donated three large boxes of books to a National Trust site.

About 15 years ago the manager decided to have a book sale weekend in six months time but he didn't have any books to sell. He appealed to the local National Trust members to donate surplus books.

At the time I had my own secondhand bookshop that was vastly overstocked and the surplus was building up in my house. My weekly book acquistions typically exceeded my sales by a ratio of twenty or thirty to one. I bought books in bulk and sold them by ones and twos.

During the first month I had donated about a thousand books to the site. They had accepted them with grateful thanks so I started sorting my whole stock and accumulating a large heap to take to the National Trust.

By the time the book sale weekend arrived the National Trust site had erected a large marquee and filled in with trestle tables covered with books with more boxes underneath each table to replace gaps. They had about 15,000 books. 5,000 had come from the county library service, 5,000 from National Trust members and the last 5,000 from me.

The book sale was a success. The profit for the weekend (after the cost of hiring the marquee and tables) was £2,500.

But they had 7,000 books left, mainly the ex-library ones. They asked me for advice. I suggested that they left some of the books on their own tables under cover outside the cafe/shop with a collection tin for "donations for books".

They did. It became self-perpetuating. People took books and left coins in the donation tin. They also brought their surplus books which replaced the stock and changed the available titles.

I continued to donate my surplus books and the remaining stock of my shop when I retired. In total I had given them seven tons of books and filled a large shed.

Over time the display of books became larger because the donations tin was raising money for projects on site with little effort by the staff or volunteers. At first the books were on display from Spring to Autumn (Fall) only and had to be taken inside each evening and put out the next morning, but they moved them inside on purpose built book racks (paid for out of the donation tin). The books were available all year around and still people brought their surplus books to top up the gaps.

Averaged over the year, the book 'sales' raised £60 a week (£3,000) a year for the first three or four years, increasing once the display area was larger. Now they raise £6,000 a year and all of that can be spent by the local manager with no need to consult Head Office for approval.

That money has installed new steps, resurfaced the car park, provided a children's trail...

They still have three tons of my books in the shed in case the stock gets low. Most of that three tons are still in the sealed cardboard boxes I delivered them in.

They are making money from books I couldn't sell. :)
 
I bought a 1914 edition of The Ring & The Book by Robert Browning in an antique shop in Bakewell yesterday. The cover is like a russet suede with art nouveau engraving. Gorgeous.
 
mhew --- can never spell phonetically

gonna hit my book and keep up this years average - I miss my domestic Goddess.

elevenses - pot of tea time
 
Not a book, but...

At today's local auction I paid £5.50 for a 1797 large parchment indenture transferring several parcels of land from a husband and wife to another person.

It will take me some time to transcribe it into Word, but it is a great item to look at with the impressed red seals of the parties, with their signatures, and a tax stamp. I note that the women could clearly sign their names. That was unusual in the 18th Century before National Schools were set up in the early 19th.

Edited to add first part of Indenture:

Settlement Dated 4th December 1797
John Hobday Lade Esq to The Revd William Lade and another:
Settlement of the Reversion of Estates Kent.
Text:

This Indenture of three Parts made the ffourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven Between John Hobday Lade Esquire Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Regiment of East Kent Militia the Eldest Son of John Lade of the City of Canterbury Esquire of the first part Eliza Lade wife of the said John Hobday Lade of the second part and The Reverend William Lade of Knowlton in the County of Kent Clerk and The Reverend George Arthur Coors of Alton in the County of Hants Clerk of the third part Whereas the said John Lade by a certain Deed Poll or Instrument in writing under his Hand and Seal bearing date the first Day of this instant December Did pursuant to the power therein writed Dizort limit and appoint That All and singular the Messuage or Tenement Lands Hereditaments and Premises with them and every Appurtances therein and hereinafter mentioned and the Reversion whereof is and by these presents intended to be granted and conveyed in manner hereinafter mentioned should from and after the decease of the said John Lade be and remain To and for the only proper use and behoof of the said John Hobday Lade his heirs and assigns and to and for no other use or intent or purpose whatever And Whereas...
 
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oggbashan said:
At today's local auction I paid £5.50 for a 1797 large parchment indenture transferring several parcels of land from a husband and wife to another person.

It will take me some time to transcribe it into Word, but it is a great item to look at with the impressed red seals of the parties, with their signatures, and a tax stamp. I note that the women could clearly sign their names. That was unusual in the 18th Century before National Schools were set up in the early 19th.

Edited to add first part of Indenture:

Settlement Dated 4th December 1797
John Hobday Lade Esq to The Revd William Lade and another:
Settlement of the Reversion of Estates Kent.
Text
This Indenture of three Parts made the fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven Between John Hobday Lade Esquire Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Regiment of East Kent Militia the Eldest Son of John Lade of the City of Canterbury Esquire of the first part Eliza Lade wife of the said John Hobday Lade of the second part and The Reverend William Lade of Knowlton in the County of Kent Clerk and The Reverend George Arthur Coors of Alton in the County of Hants Clerk of the third part Whereas the said John Lade by a certain Deed Poll or Instrument in writing under his Hand and Seal bearing date the first Day of this instant December Did pursuant to the power therein writed Dizort limit and appoint That All and singular the Messuage or Tenement Lands Hereditaments and Premises with them and every Appurtances therein and hereinafter mentioned and the Reversion whereof is and by these presents intended to be granted and conveyed in manner hereinafter mentioned should from and after the decease of the said John Lade be and remain To and for the only proper use and behoof of the said John Hobday Lade his heirs and assigns and to and for no other use or intent or purpose whatever And Whereas...
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Dowry payment? The fact the woman could write was not odd if she came from money. Even in that time frame. Very interesting find indeed.The fact they had her sign at all, is what I find more intresting.
 
Misshotndeep said:
Dowry payment? The fact the woman could write was not odd if she came from money. Even in that time frame. Very interesting find indeed.The fact they had her sign at all, is what I find more intresting.
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I haven't read it all. What I have transcribed is less than 10% of a large document.

What it appears to be is not a dowry, but a marriage settlement from her father-in-law John Lade senior to her husband John Hobday Lade to provide for Eliza Lade. At that time the husband would hold the property for her. A married woman's property WAS her husband's. The agreement seems to be to ensure that she is properly provided for.

The amount of property involved is substantial - several houses and fields in a wealthy agricultural area. They would probably be tenanted and would provide an income to enable her to live as a gentlewoman even if she became a widow. (In which case it would all be hers in her own right.)
 
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