I love titling blog posts, especially like this one. It makes me feel big and clever, even though I only know what this is because I looked it up on the internet. I bet you were intrigued too, maybe thinking that old Lestaret had come over all scientific. Nahh, but just look at this beauty:
Seemingly a hardback textbook or research journal, with gold tooling and marbled edges, this give the impression of a serious academic tome. But on opening the cover, that all changes:
It’s actually a collection of old slides – for viewing under a microscope, beautifully packaged and neatly catalogued inside the cover by one Dr. J.K.Spearing:
As you would imagine, each slide is assiduously labelled in a tiny hand:
Mmm. Nice. Very nice.
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I thought you’d ingested a dictionary for a moment there old chap! Great find, this looks absolutely fascinating and I bet it has the slightly musty, stale chemicaly odour of a boarding school science class. Fantastic stuff, thanks for sharing your cyanophyceæ with us all Mr Lestaret.
These are non mine unfortunately, but belong to Nick – he has loads of great stuff! I always ask if I can borrow something when I visit him!
WOW. Pardon my caps. What a brilliant ‘book’!
– sonmi upon the Cloud
It is rather WONDERFUL, and does occasionally inspire all caps.
Given the title of the original ‘book’, I can’t help wondering if the case was a commercial item rather than homemade. If homemade, kudos to Dr. Spearing for using a book entitled “Microscopica Preparations”. A lovely object either way. : ]
It certainly looks commercially produced to me too. I believe that this belonged to Nick’s father-in-law who I assume was Dr Spearing. It is beautiful nonetheless.