The only known copies are in the hands of collectors. They were printed with his 'Illuminated Printing' method by his own hand with his own artwork.

The rarest thing I have is the magazine that first published Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Raven", as a short story. That, a pewter-gilded copy of Keats' 'Eve of St Agnes and a gold gilded anthology of George Elliot's works published after her death that is still stiff and like new 130 years after the fact.

It isn't because I am old now and have zero recuperative ability.When I hit the wall, it stays hit.

That got me started on a love of old books. I have 1000s at this point in storage all over the place. :)

Had to stop collecting because I will never be rich enough to afford my Holy Grail.

A original William Blake copy.

Why am I still awake? I've been up for 32 hours. Whiskey's sedative effect has failed me. I'm stone cold sober to boot.

Apparently my body is confused and thinks it is 20 again.

I learned to read by being handed a 100 year old McGuffey reader and told, "Stay out of my way today", by my grandmother. :)

Looks like this is going to be an all-nighter.

Hmm. 5:11AM

It has been a all-nighter.

And I have an office full of women about to arrive at work in Kentucky after I migrated them to a new server remotely.

Software moved 27 releases ahead. Many changes.

sigh

If I go in for a nap, I need to take the iPhone with me just in case.

I really need to work on ours. We have a huge back yard and a covered area that is perfect for tables, lawn chairs and a grill. We do nothing with it.

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April 1st is the day the Internet reveals it's true colors and doesn't pretend.

I could think of far worse surroundings :)

The biggest casualty of our present culture is parody.