A few books for Andy
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Incidentally, another thing I've never seen before... this folio size deluxe edition book was in our National Gallery bookshop:
https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/hiroshige-deluxe-edition.html
I didn't buy it, so no easy to see & understand photo, my best description:
When opened I thought the pages had not been trimmed/guillotined properly.In order to ensure the 150 colour prints were perfect and unaffected by anything on the reverse of the sheet, only one side was printed, the reverse remaining white, and every two pages were left joined.
So only printed on the outer side of the paper loop and therefore you turned two sheets at a time. The pagination was normal though.(A bit like PhD's which are printed one side of the paper sheet only.)
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Your posts about books having value as such reminded me of my late mother.
She was an avid reader.
She had two bookshelves running the length of the wall above where the mattress was in the master bedroom and two more running the length a perpendicular wall under the room's windows. My brother left these shelves alone during the house's renovation.
She also had a tall bookshelf almost reaching the ceiling in the hallway.
We were often assigned 50 pages of reading per class meeting at my alma mater. I read a lot between having these assignments and the books I read because I wanted to read them.
These days I don't have the eyesight nor the ability to concentrate I had 40 years ago.
I miss both especially the eyesight.
My mother taught me how to read before I started Kindergarten.
I plan to buy a few books when I get my own place. They will stay where I put them and it will be climate controlled.
I'm afraid books tend to mold in subtropical and tropical climates.