News breaks this week that the British Library has ‘mislaid’ more than 9000 of its books. Not had them pinched, but actually lost them behind, I can only imagine, dusty bookshelves, cisterns in the public facilities or between cracks in floorboards – although I prefer to imagine that they made a canny break for it [...]
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The hunt’s on at the British Library
Posted in Footnotes, Treasured tomes, tagged British Library, lost books on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »