Matthew's Journal

My grandfather was a collector - very much for love rather than money, I may add - mainly of old children's books, books illustrated with woodcuts, and books from the very small presses like The Golden Cockerel. So the majority of them are way too old to have ISBNs. (We only have a relatively small proportion of his total collection, even if it doesn't feel like it as we are attempting to catalogue it!) The exceptions are the few other books that we were interested enough in to keep as well, mainly on Gilbert and Sullivan and madrigals I think ;-) I am cataloguing them partly for my interest and partly for the family's interest, though my uncle (the eldest son) had any with actual monetary rather than sentimental/interest value.