Tom Phippen

Professional web dev, amateur bookbinder, socialist

Keeping Richard Adams in Whitchurch

I saw last year that Richard Adams’s library was up for auction. I wanted to keep at least one of the books in Whitchurch, but couldn’t quite stretch to the £47,800 for the Second Folio.

I did manage to get the 12 volume 1820 edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, featuring the great bookplate.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 12 Volumes

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Cover

Richard Adams's bookplate