Petersfield Bookshop

@SargeCraig667 Ah, Simon's stalker is back!

@The_PBS You forgot the most important one.

What does a bookshop computer hard drive fill up with?!

An extraordinarily clean copy of Vita Sackville-West's paean of love for her ancestral home, Knole. (1923 2nd imp.) Usually this book is brown and sunned all over!

The second edition of one poet's (Shelley's) outpouring of grief for his friend (Keats), in 55 Spenserian stanzas! Very scarce and here bound by master bookbinder Roger de Coverly.

@ElizabetArcher We get all our supplies from a company called D&M Packaging.

@The_PBS What polish do you recommend?

Doing a spot of leather feeding and polishing. This set has been done save for vol IV.

A very poignant postcard. "Two mules that went all through the war with 8th Seaforth [Highlanders]" #ThingsThatFallFromBooks

From 1682 this little book has ownership inscriptions from 1688, 1733, and 1846. A consolation for those in distress, it contains two essays at the back which were first printed 20 years before during The Great Plague of London, one is addessed to those "shut up from society".

The fantasy genre has more antecedents than Gulliver's Travels. First published in the 18th century "Peter Wilkins" tell of a man who goes travelling and ends up in a land populated by people with wings. This is an early edition from 1822.

@drewl24 A bit of both actually. For ALL your book repair and maintenance needs we recommend D&M Packaging.

@The_PBS Do you use a commercial product or your own blend?

@StuartKells Not on this one sadly

@The_PBS Did you check for a fore-edge painting on this one?

The early 19th century saw a small clutch of self-taught poets with rural concerns come to the fore, of which John Clare became the best known but Robert Broomfield certainly suits that vibe too. This is the self-published first edition of his collection "May Day With the Muses"

The fifth edition of a little classic... from 1844, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

I mean, I say friend...!

@ElizabetArcher There are no ley lines in the book and I suppose I am ambivalent about them really, though I certainly believe that landscape has power through story and human interaction

@The_PBS Are you into ley lines? Once lucked into a great British book about them. Spiritual geography is fascinating.

I wrote a book! I don't mention it much on this account but if you like landscape, folklore, magic, psychography, weirdness... you MIGHT like this 60 page experimental prose poem about walking the South Downs Way (also available via Am*z*n) brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/c…

@ianhowlett That's very kind of you on many levels. I will happily take "very weird" 😁

@The_PBS I bought a copy of your book directly from the publisher, to support you, and it’s the most “unlike me” book in my collection! It is very weird, and I don’t really know what on earth to make of it, but I liked it! Definitely worth a read, gang!

Some of a collection of military portraits from c.1890. This format was known as a cabinet card, a bit bigger than a postcard they were perfect for standing up on a cabinet shelf or mantel.

@ElizabetArcher White gloves with books is a no-no... good practice is clean, dry hands. Gloves make your fingers less sensitive and you are more likely to damage the pages.

@The_PBS Do you pick it up in white gloves? Glorious book.

One of the highlights of natural history publishing "Sunbirds" by Shelley with 121 hand coloured plates by Keuelemans. Each plate highlighted om gum arabic to make the feathers shimmer when moved. Originally published in 12 parts between 1876-1880, just 250 copies.