SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

[lludwig]

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

[jeanpaulbooks]

575: What famous book was not published until more than a century after the death of its English author?

[satnrose]

Pepy's Diary

[jeanpaulbooks]

575: Bingo for satnrose.

[oldbookshopnj]

574. Jeanpaulbooks has it except that it was James Callender.

[satnrose]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys

Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy.

The detailed private diary he kept during 1660-9 was first published in the nineteenth century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.

......The diary was written in one of the many standard forms of shorthand used in Pepys's time, in this case called Tachygraphy and devised by Thomas Shelton; but, by the time the college took an interest in the diary, it was thought to be ciphered. The Reverend John Smith was engaged to transcribe the diaries into plain English; and he laboured at this task for three years, from 1819 to 1822, unaware a key to the shorthand system was stored in Pepys's library a few shelves above the diary volumes. Smith's transcription - which is also kept in the Pepys Library - was the basis for the first published edition of the diary, released in two volumes in 1825.......

[jeanpaulbooks]

oldbookshopnj

James Thomas? Thompson? Thomson? Callender?

[oldbookshopnj]

James Thomson Callender.

[oldbookshopnj]

576. For Armistice Day:

A) What is the most valuable work of literature (fiction or non-fiction) on WWI?

B) A U.S. fine press published a WWI book in an aluminum binding. What was it?

[oldbookshopnj]

576B Hint: The press has an aquatic name.

[mesvs]

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (ISBN 0-345-35068-5) was written by Alex Haley between 1964 and 1965

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[mesvs]

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (ISBN 0-345-35068-5) was written by Alex Haley between 1964 and 1965

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[satnrose]

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[oldbookshopnj]

Repeating 576 with hints:

576. For Armistice Day:

A) What is the most valuable work of literature (fiction or non-fiction) on WWI?

Hint: The author was British.

B) A U.S. fine press published a WWI book in an aluminum binding. What was it?

Hint: The press has an aquatic name.

[jeanpaulbooks]

576 A: T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

[oldbookshopnj]

576A. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the title I had at the top of list.

576B: Hint: It is related to the armistice.