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1rocketjk
I'm currently reading Rob Roy as found in one of the four volumes of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels that I came upon at a flea market here in Boonville, CA, a year or so ago.
I don't know how many volumes there are all told in this set, but the books were printed in 1898 by the Waverley Book Company, New York.
These editions are in terrific condition. I doubt that they're really "rare" and they're certainly not "off beat," but as I'm reading Rob Roy, I'm finding many uncut pages. This tells me that these books have been sitting around on different peoples' bookshelves for 110 years but at least this volume (which contains Rob Roy and St. Ronan's Well) has never been read before in all that time.
Rare and Offbeat? Maybe not. But certainly Old, and kind of cool!
I don't know how many volumes there are all told in this set, but the books were printed in 1898 by the Waverley Book Company, New York.
These editions are in terrific condition. I doubt that they're really "rare" and they're certainly not "off beat," but as I'm reading Rob Roy, I'm finding many uncut pages. This tells me that these books have been sitting around on different peoples' bookshelves for 110 years but at least this volume (which contains Rob Roy and St. Ronan's Well) has never been read before in all that time.
Rare and Offbeat? Maybe not. But certainly Old, and kind of cool!
2Marensr
I think it is a little offbeat to discover a book that has not been read. I am glad that after all this time it found a reader.
3bumblesby
I have several books from around that time period. It is amazing that you find the uncut pages after all these years! I almost didn't want to separate them, but it was rather difficult reading it that way :)
4rocketjk
I almost didn't want to separate them, but it was rather difficult reading it that way :)
I know what you mean, but the way I look at it--and this is going to sound a little goofy--by cutting those pages, I was releasing that book and allowing it to fulfill its destiny, or its purpose . . . to be read.
I know what you mean, but the way I look at it--and this is going to sound a little goofy--by cutting those pages, I was releasing that book and allowing it to fulfill its destiny, or its purpose . . . to be read.
5LyzzyBee
I am possibly the most pedantic person in the world, but I just wanted to share this cool terminology with you.
Cutting the pages is actually the act of trimming them when the book is made. You know you sometimes get those fuzzy edges to the paper, where it kind of fades out towards the edge, like posh handmade paper? That's called a deckle edge and is what is neatened up (or destroyed!) when the pages of the text block are trimmed.
The technical term for slicing the folded edges of a book which is still folded the way the book was printed on big sheets of paper, is opening. Which I like as a term!
Of course, cutting a book opens it too, but slicing open the folds is Opening.
So there we go. Enjoy the new term! And it *is* hard to separate them and lose the original newness but get to read the book!
Cutting the pages is actually the act of trimming them when the book is made. You know you sometimes get those fuzzy edges to the paper, where it kind of fades out towards the edge, like posh handmade paper? That's called a deckle edge and is what is neatened up (or destroyed!) when the pages of the text block are trimmed.
The technical term for slicing the folded edges of a book which is still folded the way the book was printed on big sheets of paper, is opening. Which I like as a term!
Of course, cutting a book opens it too, but slicing open the folds is Opening.
So there we go. Enjoy the new term! And it *is* hard to separate them and lose the original newness but get to read the book!
