Wednesday, October 1, 2014

holy cow ... printed in 1711

I found a couple antique books at my parents house ... I just about fainted dead away when I read "Printed and Sold by James Blow, M,DCC,XI".

1711 ... seventeen eleven!!! WHOA! Now that's cause for passing out, huh?! It's in pretty good shape considering all those years - 303 years.

 

The left hand page bears a name and the words, "His book".
The right hand page is a personal note from a long ago relative 
of mine, which appears to have been sewn into the front of 
the book. The book was given as a gift from a grandmother
to a granddaughter in 1861.


Names and years are noted here. Sadly pretty much unreadable.
I am wondering if these are all names of people who were
gifted the book? 1807 is written upside down - notations
seem to be written any which way.


"The Instructor
or
Young Man's Best Companion"
Note the bottom of the right hand page, this is where it states 1711 -
BELFAST
Printed and Sold by James Blow, M,DCC,XI
So exciting! Pass the smelling salts!


So charming, appears to be wood block prints?




I can make out one relatives name here 
and the year 1786, at almost the back.


I can find two years noted on these pages, 1749 and
1776 (now I'm not sure of that when I look at it again)
and recognize the same relatives name and a date of
December 29th, but year is unreadable.

Hope you got a kick out of this too!

Happy Hump Day!

4 comments:

  1. What a fabulous find! I don't think I would be able to put it down!!

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  2. very cool! great family treasure!
    xoxo
    vivian

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  3. I just love old books and I don't have any book that old

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  4. Wow!! That is soo neat! I just love old things that have a little history behind it! What a treasure to have now! :) Happy weekend! xo Holly

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