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Reading the Collections, week 13: A Holiday in Iceland

A Holiday in Iceland by N.L van Gruisen, Junr. (London 1879), though an unassuming little volume, caught my attention every time I passed it on the shelf. Since I visited Iceland last year I have held a fascination…

Date: 29 April 2015
Category: Rare Book Collection Reading the Collections

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 24

Thorlak’s Bible, the second edition of the Bible in Icelandic, bound in contemporary leather with beautiful clasps and endpapers I stumbled across this fascinating book while I was photographing the library’s copy of…

Date: 25 November 2011
Category: Bindings

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Reading the Collections, week 13: A Holiday in Iceland

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 24

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