[MR] A site well worth spending some money at

[Jennifer Dobyns]

Greetings,

These are beautiful.  I need to dig further into the website, but one 
thing occurred to me.  At a recent ren-fair I had a conversation with a 
gentleman who used to sell such things.  He no longer does because he 
found that by his and other merchants doing so, it was encouraging the 
destruction of books that were otherwise in fine condition and would 
loose their value as books in being destroyed (sort of like digging up 
artifacts at an archaeological site to sell them without any study, thus 
taking them out of their context).  The market for individual pages is 
better than that for whole books, because collectors can frame and hang 
the pages or whatever.   It's a bit of a dilemma.  They're already out 
there, therefore buying them might not seem such a bad thing, but once 
the vendors need more to support the market (and their purses), where 
will they go for new ones?

As much as I drool over the originals (and they _are_ wonderful!), I 
will try and support the artists who make copies instead.

Jen

On Wednesday, June 8, 2005, at 06:55 PM, Joshua Thomas wrote:

> A site well worth spending some money at:
>
> http://www.cepuckett.com/catalogue.asp?state=Manuscript
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