I have a Victorian edition of a George Elliot novel Scenes of Clerical Life, published by Blackwoods ( those of the Blackwoods Magazine). Its pages are all intact, though the spine is loose, hence why it was on the 10p shelf at the second hand bookshop.I was happening to look inside the spine and found a piece of paper.
This is what I found:
What looks to be a fragment from a ledger dating from 1836-1838!!!!! And made of rag paper also. I bet I am the first person to see that since the book was bound!!!!
This paper was made only 9 years after Beethoven passed on and the rags it was made from might well have been from clothing worn by someone when he was still alive! That is really fascinating.
This is what I found:
What looks to be a fragment from a ledger dating from 1836-1838!!!!! And made of rag paper also. I bet I am the first person to see that since the book was bound!!!!
This paper was made only 9 years after Beethoven passed on and the rags it was made from might well have been from clothing worn by someone when he was still alive! That is really fascinating.