{"id":1864,"date":"2007-01-23T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T00:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2007-01-23T00:12:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T00:12:52","slug":"nothing-new-about-misplaced-apostrophes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Nothing new about misplaced apostrophes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arriving today from the irrestistible reaches of eBay’s antiquarian section is a humble little volume one of Mrs Jameson’s Memoir’s of the Early Italian Painters<\/I>. I can’t blame the printer, but the later bookbinder definitely had problems with the concept of the apostrophe, much like today’s greengrocers.<\/p>\n

Written inside in beautifully clear copperplate is:
\n<\/p>\n

Louisa Clarke,
\nthe gift of her Aunt,
\nDecember 1851<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/em>
\nI wonder who she was…<\/p>\n

Mrs Jameson is one of my eBay favourites<\/a> – she’s nearly always very cheap, which suggests she sold an awful lot of books.<\/p>\n

She had a full if not always easy life<\/a> – surely calling out for a modern biography, but I didn’t think there is one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arriving today from the irrestistible reaches of eBay’s antiquarian section is a humble little volume one of Mrs Jameson’s Memoir’s of the Early Italian Painters. I can’t blame the printer, but the later bookbinder definitely had problems with the concept of the apostrophe, much like today’s greengrocers. Written inside in beautifully clear copperplate is: Louisa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}