While She Knits

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Summer is over, school has started, Megan is back in Ohio knitting a new pair of socks for her upcoming trip to Boston as a Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards Honoree, and thesehnsucht 's recent post brings to mind just how long it has been since we had a WSK conversation.

What books have you read recently that really left an impression on you?  What are the ones on your To Be Read or Upcoming New Release lists that you are simply itching to get at? 

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I just bought a book called Prang's Standard Alphabets. Printed in 1901; the original edition was 1880-something, I think.

It isn't a book in the sense of a story. It's what it says: Alphabets. From plain to ultra-decorative, and just basically a magnificent example of the printer's art. I'll have to scan some of the pages and post them to Photobucket. The intricate lines, the layers of color, even gilding on some of them - they're just gorgeous.

I got something of a deal on it, and should probably sell it because it's worth much more than I paid for it, but not yet!