Love old books, but I’ll never have the money to buy these kinds of books. 30 years ago they were just a little out of my budget and now they cost 10 times as much. They go up in price faster than I can make the money to buy them.

Would love to see more Shorts of the works of my 5th Great Grandfather Robert Mudie ❤ 🙏 what a massive contribution of literature & social change he made, thanks for this @uispecoll cheers 🍻

Can't hear a word being said

i have 100's of 'em at keynote my store in lake tahoe. Picked up most of them in the 70's while living in LA, they were everywhere and cheap.

Think my hands would shake if I held a copy of this in my hands or the Great Gatsby ,very neat ,please post more soon ,love this ,

Was wax the original material? And when did they switch to vinyl

Hi book lovers ,this is one of my favorite classics and seeing a first edition is very thrilling ,beautiful treasure ,please post more soon ,loving books ,

i love seeing this old games! thanks for sharing

Thank you for sharing your collection gems.

Thank you for your work to bring the works of William Morris to any of us who have the wish to view it. Also to your university.

PLEASE post more cylinder player content

And I disagree with the statement that there is a capitalistic desire to have an art object 20:30 Art has a universal appeal and art possession is was older than capitalism. I think is a human characteristic as no other being collects art. Very nice lecture, I hope will help to stop biblioclasts.

I do not think there is a need for further destruction. There are more available leaves nowadays than collectors, therefore, individuals can select out of a wealth of materials. Current books, perfect or not, should be preserved. And there is no question that Ege saw a perfect business opportunity that was interrupted by his untimely death. In the XXI century, biblioclasts are wrong.

Nice to hear harmonies from before auto tune

Ah, the USA; the greatest pirates in unauthorised scam copies for over 200 years. Be warned.

isn’t it pronounced hoaf-aymter-schpiel?

That’s hard as fuck. 20bucks take it or leave it.

This is so interesting, I could listen to this gentleman all day. I have got a collection (of sorts), very specialised, about 2,000 volumes, but it contains nothing remotely as old or as expensive as the volumes he talks of. For all that, the experience of getting started and building up a collection is immediately recognisable. You buy one book, apparently with no particular motivation, and it leads to another one, connected with it. And then something you have bought leads you sideways to another subject and you are off, following another pathway. It's such an adventure, so interesting. Then there are books about books, an endless subject. The history of books and printing is enthralling. Thank you, professor, for your knowledge and wisdom.

I wonder if anyone figured out what the mysterious manuscript with the unusual language was?

Awesome! Thank you.

The first campus office was in the Jefferson Building.

Rutgers was formed and recognised before the U of I.

Ahhh! I love it so much!

OMgosh I would have given anything to dig through those packed old houses you spoke about! That's what I call the "hustlers rush". I get it when buying & selling antique clothing & furniture.

I can fully relate to the attachment to what was purchased with the purpose of resale. As a lover of books, this is a consistent hurdle in book selling😂

Stunningly beautiful! Incredibly brilliant! She's got such a presence that, not for her warm personality, would almost be intimidating,

Don't play wax cylinders on that machine! They will be damaged. You are playing a blue amberol cylinder which was made of celluloid , an early plastic.

Lolol

Just like prom night..

Just like prom night..

We used a hand cranked one.

Boy that's a sound I haven't heard in a LONG time...

Face it, we don't care if you got it running, we just want to smell the paper after it has been printed.

First!!!!

i didnt know you people exist. Thank you for taking care of books. Not a lot of people do that these days.

This is so adorable!

so cute!

Where would I find the Hazel Schmuecker papers?

"Work for the Night Is Coming"--I guess a commercial recording and not a home recording?

Very nice talk

What a great time capsule!! ❤

2 frames por segundo

Woah that’s so cool!!! It must of taken a long time to do but thanks for showing us!! ❤

Die amerikanische Buchgeschichte beginnt mit dem Baypsalmbook. Alles was davor gedruckt wurde, gehört uns Europäern und ist uns gestohlen worden.

I hope his wife knows the value of those books, When he dies there will be tons of vultures waiting

An excellent tour of the exhibition and wonderful background information.

so beautiful

👍

very interesting!

so important!