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Colleen: Welcome to Staxpeditions where we've been asking "The Nerdiest Question" - What is your favorite Library of Congress call number range?
Colleen:We had so many this time we put them in a box!
Colleen: It's so small your hand doesn't fit.
Patrick: And, what do we got? Here we got from Twitter user Mitch Fraas. He says he's
biased but he likes the Z range.
Colleen: Z!?
Patrick: I'm biased as well, but Z is my personal favorite range also.
Patrick: Let's go to Z!
Patrick: Let's just grab...let's go with this one.
Colleen: There's folio too...
Patrick: But folios are so big and heavy.
Patrick: I just grabbed a two volume set that was bound in leather and looked rather old
because I tend to like old things that are bound in leather.
Patrick: Mitch gave us so much latitude to pick whatever we wanted. So what do we have
here, the spine says "Walpole Catalog of Authors."
Colleen: This one has a tiny flag in it that just says, "Music ?"
There is music here right at the end. And what looks like an engraving. The Voluntary
Before the March.
Patrick: "The Catalog of the Royal and Noble Authors of England with Lists of their Works."
And I'm guessing this is Horace. Yes, Horace Walpole. He put together this catalog. Horace
Walpole was a real book lover himself. He was one of the first who operated what was
commonly considered to be one of the first private presses, The Strawberry Hill Press.
So, for us here at Iowa, interested in book arts, he's part of a long important tradition.
Pete: Edward Montague, Earl of Sandwich. Inventor of the sandwich.
Patrick: We owe him a great debt.
Colleen (whispers): What did the Earl of Sandwich write??
Pete: I don't know. Let's find out. Oh, I see look, Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset,
that's like the Sackville Baggins in The Hobbit.
Patrick: Perhaps they are related?
Pete: Edward Montague, Earl of Sandwich, "A well known character in our history, and one
of the most beautiful in any history. He showed from the age of 19, and united the qualification
of general, admiral, and statesman, all parties at a time when there was nothing but parties,
have agreed, that his virtues were equal to his valor and abilities.
Patrick: What have we here?
Colleen: Yeah, that's pretty much the greatest signature ever.
Patrick: We've got a nice old armorial bookplate. From the Collinson family, and another Collinson
family member has written...his?... name in here. Though I can't quite make out that first
name.
Colleen: So, Mitch, that is what we have in Z! Thanks! Enjoy!
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