Old books

If ever I am rich, I shall collect old books.  (Or maybe by the time I'm rich, the books I have will be old.)
I have an online acquaintance who is a writer who collects old style manuals.  I found that interesting.  I only have a few books that are old that I've collected in quite a haphazard fashion.
Passed on to my father by my grandfather was a book entitled The Deaconship.  It was originally written in 1846 and reprinted in 1946.  I have permanently borrowed it.  It's a small 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" book.  Besides being interesting in its own right, the book bears the underlining in red pencil of portions that my grandfather highlighted.

 

 

Another old book I have is one I picked up at a thrift shop, Winning Declamations and How to Speak Them.  It has a copyright of 1924.  Do people declaim nowadays?

 

 

 

My third old book had quite a bit in it to amuse us.  It is Webster's High School Dictionary with a copyright of 1892.

 

Of course, some words present a much different image now.  Observe the illustration of ambulance, "a flying hospital."

 

A clipping tucked between the pages advertised "Harriet Hubbard Ayer's Cream Cleansing Soap" and other "Bathroom Requisites."

 

 There was a clipping from the December 10, 1934 edition of the Raleigh Times which had a copy of "The Famous Christmas Poem by Clement Moore," "The Night Before Christmas."  My guess is that Good Ole Santy Claus missed a few houses that year what with the nation still in The Great Depression.



 

Old books--a connection to a time past.