I’m up to 361 catalogued books so far, with about 8 shelves to go. This is not counting my fiction books, though.
So far I’ve found five books with duplicates:
The Country House and How It Worked
Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld
Regency London by Stella Margetson
All You Needed to Know About What Materials Were Used When, With What Colors and Gems, Through the Ages (by Marisa Jones for the San Diego RWA Chapter)
Waterloo by David Howarth (a Pitkin book)
I’ll donate these to the Beau Monde Conference’s Silent Auction and hope that my Book Collector software keeps me from buying duplicates as often as I do!
I also discovered lots of books I forgot I had! (I’m a sad case, I know…) Some of them are very old and some…I just forgot.
Memorials Of St. James ‘s Street Together With The Annals Of Almack’s (1922)
A quote:
St. James’s Street, which sheltered Waller and Pope and Byron; where Maclean, the highwayman, lodged cheek by jowl with the “quality” whom he robbed; where Wolfe once stayed and wrote to Pitt asking for employment in 1758; and where Gillray threw himself out of a window; where the clubs and coffee houses took in and gave forth half the intellect and aristocracy of the land; where Dr Johnson, requiring a pair of shoe-buckles, came to the shop of Wirgman, here, to get them, as faithfully recorded by Boswell—St James’s Street is, notwithstanding its famous habitués and its notable events, as much associated with the name of Betty, the fruit woman, as with that of any other person during the eighteenth century.
Byng’s Tours
“Every summer for ten years, the Hon John Byng set off on a tour of England or Wales. He sampled the landscape and history of the countryside, visited houses and sketched ruins. This book contains his journals.”
Edinburgh In The Nineteenth Century Or Modern Athens Displayed In A Series Of Views
(follow the link to the google books version)
Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution : Lessons For The Computer Age
This book tells of the Luddite rebellion against technology and relates it to the present day.
This cataloguing job is turning into an adventure!
Do you ever come across books you forgot you had? Do you ever buy a book you already own?
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