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12th Sep 2020, 7:24 PM
	23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4061 Points	(Apologies if this topic has already been done, though I couldn't find a thread). There are some very eclectic collections being indexed here. I'm curious to find out: what is the oldest book you own? I mean in terms of physical printing - especially if it's one you haven't yet indexed, or are scared to because you don't want to damage it. (Which is fair enough.) For me, the record is held by a book-length poem titled The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts On Life, Death, And Immortality that I found in, of all places, a "leave a book/take a book for 50 cents" charity rack in a Calgary grocery store about 15 years ago. It was printed in 1792 and I've had it verified. It's not in 100% condition - the cover has detached - but the pages are surprisingly supple for something that is nearly 230 years old. No other books in my collection come close (I have a book that I just indexed called Domestic Life that may date from the original publication run in 1841, but it's not dated and given the pedigree of the copy I have, mine was more likely reprinted in the 1890s.).

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