You’ve got to love the UK. Cardiff University’s Special Collections and Archives happens to own an anatomy book from the library of Sir Isaac Newton.
Professor Wood took us down to Special Collections for our last class. She laid out a beautiful array of 18th-century maps of Wales, 19th-century hand-illustrated fairy books, and incredibly intricate by-subscription copies of The Mabinogion with intricate Celtic knotwork and those gorgeous old Victorian ink drawings.
I’m a dummy who failed to get a photo of any of these. I don’t think photography is allowed in Special Collections anyway.
The final Professor Wood-ism for the semester is: “The Victoria and Albert Museum library doesn’t have one of these. Ha-ha. [British raspberry].”