{"id":16581,"date":"2017-01-04T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=16581"},"modified":"2017-01-04T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:23:06","slug":"new-dustjackets-for-old-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2017\/01\/04\/new-dustjackets-for-old-books\/","title":{"rendered":"New dustjackets for old books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Via the <a href=\"https:\/\/hvmorton.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/31\/judging-a-book-by-its-cover\/\">H.V.Morton blog<\/a>, named after the South African travel writer, I learn of a novel thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">How many of us have old hardbacks, bought second-hand, where the dust jackets have long since gone?\u00a0 The colourful dust jackets of H.V. Morton&#8217;s travel books on my shelves are long gone, leaving only a bible-black cloth cover, which is, to say the least, uninviting.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But what if you could buy a new dust-jacket?\u00a0 A reproduction of the original, with the colours restored?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Well, an enterprising gentleman has set up a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reprojackets.co.uk\/\">Reprojackets<\/a> to do just that.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is an example of his work, the original and his colour corrected version:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16582\" style=\"width: 815px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/middle_east.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16582\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/middle_east.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"522\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">H.V.Morton, &#8220;Middle East&#8221; &#8211; original dust-jacket faded by time, and then modern colour corrected reproduction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\">The range is, perhaps inevitably, a limited one.\u00a0 The price is high, but then how many will he sell?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A remarkable spot of private enterprise, which can only benefit us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the H.V.Morton blog, named after the South African travel writer, I learn of a novel thing. How many of us have old hardbacks, bought second-hand, where the dust jackets have long since gone?\u00a0 The colourful dust jackets of H.V. Morton&#8217;s travel books on my shelves are long gone, leaving only a bible-black cloth cover, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}