the dream becomes a nightmare! Mozley dies. The lithographic plates have been destroyed. There is confusion over who is responsible for the folios. And they end up in a barn . . . an old Kentish barn . . .
a falling-down kind of old Kentish barn! The nightmare gets worse . . . withering weather gets in . . . rampaging rodents get in further . . . and the proud thousand become a depleted 250. Well, not exactly. After more than a year of painstaking salvage work, just over two hundred of the folio sets are saved.
That initially limited edition has become very limited indeed. But more than a hundred new owners are now enjoying possession of this unique work, whether to grace a personal collection or made more widely available in the libraries of schools, universities and literary associations. Which, of course, means there are less than a hundred of these folio sets left for sale worldwide. Time to act!
*Newsflash! The world renowned British Library has now
purchased this great work to save for the nation.
To see why, go to The Tales. |
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