Preserving sustainability
Archivists and rare book librarians are used to finding small items interleaved in the collections they catalogue, from invitations, business cards and other improvised bookmarks, to locks of hair.
However, our Bolton cataloguer found something rather unusual while examining this German-Latin dictionary from the Bolton Library, printed in Zurich in 1596 – a number of pressed and dried leaves, inserted by a previous owner of the text at some stage over the last 400 years.
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