I’ve talked before about these promotional bookmarks that used to be quite common and that you don’t see as much of anymore. This is a good example, and it’s from the early days of my collection. I don’t know when I picked it up, but the first edition of The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People came out in 1976. The keyhole shape was a sly idea.
Book: The Film Encylopedia by Ephraim Katz
We’re keeping it small and simple this week!
Book: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
This week’s bookmarks are brought to you by the fabulous Fraggle, who sent them all the way from the north of England. Gibside and Wallington Hall are both heritage sites and I was thrilled to see that the National Trust still have these embossed leather bookmarks in their gift shops. Because what’s a nicer keepsake than a bookmark? I still have a bunch of them from my visit to the UK in the 1970s (see some from Scotland here), but I don’t think I was ever in Northumberland or Tyne & Wear.
Book: A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603 – 1776 by Simon Schama
I’ve posted a lot of cat bookmarks over the years. Time to even things out a bit with this stylish silver piece from Gibraltar.
Book: A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present by Glenn Adamson
Pewter presents from Pugwash, Nova Scotia. A Merry Christmas to all of you!
Book: The Celts: A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins
It’s getting a little late to be sending your letters to Santa, kids! He’s a busy man this time of year.
Book: Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
A blend of Merino wool and silk that a friend picked up for me in Newfoundland. It has a really light, spongy feel to it. Can’t say I have any other bookmarks quite like it.
Book: The Story of Nature: A Human History by Jeremy Mynott
I had to take this picture from a different angle because it’s a mirrored bookmark and I didn’t want to show my phone’s reflection. I like how you can see through the stained glass windows, and it’s really quite a striking bookmark when you hold it up to a window.
Book: Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic by Philip Ball
A metal paperclip bookmark to commemorate the fact that the white stuff is back with us. Not a bookmark I’d ever want to put in a book, but a nice design.
Book: The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Jefferson and I have a lot in common. Not only do we both like books, but we both designed our own libraries to put them in! I don’t know if he collected bookmarks though.
Book: Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood
