| I've a number of books with previous owners' name(s) in them - nothing as old as yours Morse - and I've often wondered who they were, what they thought of the book, and what happened to them.
I do like to think that there's a continuity between the author, the seller, the first buyer and finally me.
What's the book, Morse? The oldest books I have are a couple of histories of India - both published a year or two before the Mutiny, and I love the smugness in them. Were very tatty (thus cheap), but with a lot of TLC, some restitching and new leather bindings, and they don't look half-bad.
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