Quite Early One Morning

As a birthday present I received this second-handbook from Sian. Bought from a local charity shop it was full of marginalia: The marginalia began: The marginalia continued: Restless magpie that … Continue reading Quite Early One Morning

Curious facts and fiction

On book-readers’ marginalia

By Robert Frost, 3 October 1916 [Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser]:

the footnotes and marginalia

I write in the margins of the books that I read. I never do so to correct the author. I need marginalia to help me find my way back to … Continue reading the footnotes and marginalia