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Originally Posted by HarryT
... I like to think of all the different people who must have owned it over the centuries. I wonder if I'll be the final owner ...
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Exactly what makes me choose my copy of
The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was printed shortly after the first edition and is custom bound in "half leather", probably to match the first owner's library style. There is a box plate inside the cover indicating the original owner was
John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey of
RMS Titanic,
RMS Lusitania, and
RMS Empress of Ireland fame. The plate reads "John C. Bigham, Q.C. M.P".