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One of the most popular posts to date (gah!) has been bookshop cats. I don’t care much for them, but it seems most other book people rather like them. By the way, I believe the artist intended that to be an inkwell set close by the feather quill, and not a poo. Although, that lazy cat is looking a bit smug and like he’s gotten away with something.
Bibliophile on Book TV!
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C-SPAN to Film Author Kevin Hayes and ‘The Road to Monticello’ at Full Circle on Friday, July 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Join us this Friday for a special event featuring Kevin J. Hayes, Professor of English at University of Central Oklahoma and author of The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson, a biography of Thomas Jefferson as an intellectual. C-SPAN will be on site to film Hayes’ talk about his new book.
In The Road to Monticello, Hayes, looking at Jefferson’s correspondence, literary efforts, and libraries, follows Jefferson’s education from a young man to lawyer; from his original estate which burned down to his time in Europe, his time in office, and finally to his retirement at Monticello. Jefferson, mythic American figure and third President of the United States, was an able statesman and politician, as well as a philosopher, a scholar, and a gentleman.
Publisher’s Weekly says of the book: “Hayes… takes us through Jefferson’s hugely wide and eclectic reading with an ease and lightness often missing from a subject central to American history”
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Taunton Mass., public library, stereoview
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Great image.
Taunton MA, public library, stereoview detail, no date.
L.M. Maxham Real Photo Stereoview c.1870
Taunton Public Library
1966, Cruise Ship ex libris
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STR. Lombok (?).
Books are lent -free of charge- to passengers and Officers daily between 10.00 and 10.30 a.m. and between 5.00 and 5.30 p.m.
One book at a time may be borrowed by each person for a maximum period of 7 days. An extension may be obtained upon application to the Chief Steward. All books should be returned before disembarkation.
The equivalent of Nf.10- will be charged for any book lost, damaged or defaced. If any book is received from the Library in a damaged condition, the Chief Steward should be notified immediately.
Received Into Ship’s Library ___________ (Nov- 1966)
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Road to Monticello Review
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What a week! Busy, but also very good. Well, true friend of the Bibliophiles of Oklahoma, Kevin J. Hayes’s new book The Road to Monticello got a nice long review in the New York Sun this last week by Adam Kirsch. I mean to post a link to it then, but the holiday got in the way. So, read the review then go pick up a copy.
“The Jefferson we get to know in these pages, rather, is the voracious reader and book collector, the happy victim of what he called ‘bibliomanie.'”
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