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How to ‘judge’ a book owner by their bookplate

We don’t really judge, but we can definitely get to know a lot about a book’s owner by their customised bookplate

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Stitches in time: Remaking a 1577 Bible cover

Recreating the embroidery on a 1577 Bible cover that could have been done by Queen Elizabeth I herself?

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Is this burnt bible a survivor of the Great Fire of London?

Hidden away for years, we trace its journey from flames to museum shelves

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Limehouse dock (wood engraving)

Doré, Gustave, Doms, A.

1872

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