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Happy Birthday to our beloved James Murray, the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Here he is in his Scriptorium in Oxford, wearing his John Knox cap and holding a book and a Dictionary quotation slip. We know we’re biased, but we love him.
Image: Courtesy of the OUP Archives
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The anniversary of the British Museum led us to spend a few hours wandering their extensive online collections. This print, made by Marcel Jules Gingembre d’Aubépine around 1886, is called Les joies du bibliophile.
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“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
Abraham Lincoln
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Bound by Redzenradish on Flickr.