LH 157: 8 Tips For Collecting & Using Vintage Books

LH 157: The Magic Of Vintage Books

I’ve been collecting vintage books since I was a kid. I absolutely love old books.

They are real treasures, and I have bookcases full of old gardening and cookbooks (many over 100 years old) and even old canning books. I really find a lot of value in collecting them because you can still glean a lot of fun information from these older books.

Which is why you want to help them last…maybe for another hundred years.

Yes, some of the information is outdated in vintage books. But that doesn’t mean there is no value in them.

I find so many little nuggets of truth in them, and I know you will too.

They really are a great source of inspiration, and are full of ideas you may have never heard of and aren’t found online.

In today’s episode, I share some of my favorite vintage books and tell you how to seek out and preserve books of your own.

You will learn:

• Why you want to collect vintage books
• What info can be used or NOT used from these books
• How to find older books with inspiring ideas
• Tips for proper care and storage
• Why you need to use and ENJOY the books you have
• And SO much more…

Resources & Links Mentioned:

Some of my favorite Vintage writers:

• Rosetta E. Clarkson
• Helen M. Fox
• Eleanor Sinclaire Rohde
• Annie Burnham Carter
• Gertrude Jekyll

Some vintage books I mentioned:

• Magic Gardens by Rosetta E. Clarkson
• In An Herb Garden by Annie Burnham Carter
• Adopting an Abandoned Farm by Kate Sanborn
• Stillroom Cookery by Grace Firth
• Secrets of the Still by Grace Firth
• A Garden of Herbs by Eleanor Sinclaire Rohde
• The Art of Cooking with Herbs & Spices by Milo Miloradovich

Transcript:

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