What They Read, A Look into Literary Libraries and Bathtubs

An interesting link from PhiloBiblos from the VSL webpage covers the contents of famous libraries from the LibraryThing webpage. Its an interesting look to see what they held dear to their shelves.

Here's a link to a collection with the wonderfully offbeat name , The Bathtub Collection. "The Bathtub collection consists of fragments found in the old and rare bindings of the NLM’s rare book collection when items were rebound and conserved in the 1940s and 1950s. It is called the “Bathtub Collection” because then-curator Dorothy Schullian took the leftovers of conservation work home and soaked them in her bathtub to retrieve the often interesting bits and pieces of medieval manuscripts and early printed ephemera she found." Thanks to Sara Piasecki the History of Medicine Librarian at OHSU for the link.