Silting on a high gallery at the British Museum will bo found the most dauntless man in London. There are something like 20,000.000 books in the Museum, library, and he has set himself the task of "renovating" each one! He works all by-Himself with a solution for preserving- old leather covers a sponge, and deft' hand. He has been doing 15,000 books a year for It Mftro now, making a total of 210,000 to date.
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Evening Post, Issue 145, 22 December 1928, Page 5
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75Untitled Evening Post, Issue 145, 22 December 1928, Page 5
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