Month: May 2013
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Unique Early English Books at Penn
Defining what is “unique” about a book can take many forms as seen in the range of posts on this blog to date. Since I started at Penn though I’ve been especially eager to discover and make known those books in our collections which are unique in the purely quantitative sense – i.e. books where…
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Ezra Pound and Overdue Poetry
As long as there have been circulating libraries there have been readers who just couldn’t manage to return books on time. Several weeks ago, I found myself at the University Archives reading through some of the records of the Penn Libraries from the early 20th century. Within the stacks of book orders, ledgers recording the…