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Preserved For Posterity
by admin - 23:00 on 24 March 2011
Certain copies of The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery are well travelled. One has made the trip to Yorkshire twice – first in kit form, to be bound, then back again from the Highlands to Boston Spa, near Wetherby, home of the British Library. Admit it – you thought it was in London.
The British Library is legally entitled to a copy of every book published in the UK, so yesterday I did my duty and posted them their freebie. The Bumper Book now rests under the same roof as the last Harry Potter, the last Booker Prize winner (whatever that was) and volumes by photographic luminaries such as Joe Cornish, Colin Prior and Philip Dunn. Although possibly not on the same shelf.
Our Great Work has become part of the biggest book archive in the country and will remain there forever. Its authors' place in history is assured.
Less assured is the provenance of future copies of the book. Three hundred more have been ordered from Norman and Co while the search continues for a lithographic printer who offers both value for money and generous credit. The search may be a long one.
Several copies could have been sold at tonight's meeting of Cromarty Camera Club, were it not for our fear of disappointing the crowds at the forthcoming Official Launch Shindig by running short of stock. With luck the would-be buyers will turn up at the event and make Eilean Dubh Restaurant look busy.
Entertainment at the meeting was provided by sports photographer Phil Downie, who brought along some of his snaps and the Serious Cameras and Serious Lenses with which many of them were taken. Not bad for a Nikon man.
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