I suggest you contact Archive CD books, http://www.archivecdbooks.org/ They are a not for profit group who scan old books using specialised equipment, and make them available at a low cost to people on CD. They use the income from the sales to pay for the restoration of the book concerned and other books, and they buy books at auction which need restoring, pay for their restoration, scan them and make them available on CD. The very first book they did was called The Nottingham Date book, this book was in such poor condition that Notts record office were going to stop letting people read it. Rod Neep, who was well known to them, begged to be allowed to borrow it for a weekend to scan it, and sell copies of it on CD to raise the money to restore it. That book was also indexed by a team of volunteers, myself included. And from this it has grown into a worldwide project. As for Latin - I am currently doing A level, so I can read medieval sources, but I know I am a rarity Liz in Stockport >From: Chris <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [OEL] New Gresham Dictionary, 1917-ish >Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:40:58 -0500 > >Hi Folks, >I just signed up here to let you all know I have an original 1917-ish >New Gresham Dictionary. It's a bit tired but mostly all there. >I'm not trying to sell it, but asking of you what should I do to >preserve its contents? >I just figure it's kind of neat, full of all sorts of OE anachronysms >and some Latin which no-one these days ever learns. >It'd be a shame to lose this one, I think. >What to do? > >Quid rides? >Chris > > > >==================================== >WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ >ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com

At 12:56 21/01/2007, Liz Parkinson wrote: >I suggest you contact Archive CD books, Unfortunately, dictionaries of this age are neither rare nor particularly desirable. They are the sort of books that can be picked up at charity shops for pence. The few words that they contain that have fallen out of more modern dictionaries can usually be found with the aid of google. John