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[Varche]

My favourite is Animals' treatment first aid. The Elliman EFA Book (covers Horses, dogs, birds and cattle) Published in 1900. Here is an extract  http://www.newrider.com/Library/How_it_Was/horse_care.html. Under Cattle there is a lovely section on "driving" The morning is the best time, water is the chief requirement on the road as the exertion is unusual and extra water is wanted.

I am also reading a totally unPC book My sporting Memories published 1922  (forty years with gun and notebook by major general nigel woodyatt. That is all about shooting any and many big game animals in India. Mostly man eating tigers!!

Anyone else love old books? We are the last generation that will as the Internet and ebooks will rule from now on.

[Andy B]

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Anyone else love old books? We are the last generation that will as the Internet and ebooks will rule from now on.

My Mum has some old books that used to belong to an old neighbour (she's been dead for more than 40 yrs), they're date from the mid to late 1800s. I've no idea what we'll do with them in the future.  :-? :-? I know there's a copy of The Journey to the Centre of the Earth but no idea what else there is.

[Amigo]

What an interesting post. 2 or 3 years ago i was backed onto a loading bay in Thetford & saw some old books in a skip. Sadly most of them were rain damaged but i retrieved 3 hardbacks. One is a novel called The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. It gives no clue of the year of print or editon but advertises other novels @2s.6d!!! There is what looks like a page of tracing paper as the first leaf is illustrated, & was published byWilliam Blackwood & sons, Edinburgh & London.
  I also salvaged another two hardbacks, the first British Encyclopedia HUG-LYR. dated 1933  & British Dictionary vol11 A-MAT same binding & date. These both appear to be newer than aforementioned novel.
    I also have a few old Observers books, age related dinky & corgi diecast guides & some 60's/70's car stuff.

   To sum up HOW can anyone throw a box of 100 odd year old books in a skip? They must have brought them to work just to bin them!!!

  I only wish i'd been there a day earlier, so many were ruined.....HEATHEN!!!!!