| Title | : | The Price-Codes of the Book Trade: A preliminary guide by Exhumation |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 31 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2010 |
The Price-Codes of the Book Trade: A preliminary guide by Exhumation Reviews
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I very much enjoyed this, both as an interesting insight into an important historical (and current) practice within the field of bookselling, but also as a display of a collective outpouring of linguistic wit. Puns galore - the risqué, the pious, the cuttingly self-satirical. All in all a very enjoyable, though brief, tour of a cryptographic field long neglected.
And I was pleased to note the author, whose own code "EXHUMATION" stands as a pseudonym on the title page, selected as an example of a bookseller fortuitous enough to have a name which might serve for such a code straight off the bat, Hall's Bookshop's own "HWPRATLEY", for Wilfred Henry Pratley. -
I very much enjoyed this, both as an interesting insight into an important historical (and current) practice within the field of bookselling, but also as a display of a collective outpouring of linguistic wit. Puns galore - the risqué, the pious, the cuttingly self-satirical. All in all a very enjoyable, though brief, tour of a cryptographic field long neglected.
And I was pleased to note the author, whose own code "EXHUMATION" stands as a pseudonym on the title page, selected as an example of a bookseller fortuitous enough to have a name which might serve for such a code straight off the bat, Hall's Bookshop's own "HWPRATLEY", for Wilfred Henry Pratley.
