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Non Solus – Blog for Book Lovers

29 June 2010
"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare." (Kenko Yoshida)
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Released by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois


“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

Kenko Yoshida

Non Solus – The new blog has been released by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois. It highlights interesting items found while cataloguing and working with old and rare books. Blog posts concentrate on bibliographical research, identifying books, special collections and announcements of new exhibitions, for example:

Daryl Green: Unidentified Coat of Arms Found in the Incunabula Collection

Adam Doskey: Three Books from Alexander Pope's Library

Adam Doskey: Hans Christian Andersen's Presentation Copy to a Young Neighbour

Marten Stromberg: Histoire des Ballons from the Library of Amelia Earhart

Daryl Green: Spanish Antiphonal Manuscript

Valerie Hotchkiss: The First Bible Printed in the Western Hemisphere


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