they chose elizabeth barrett browning's sonnets from the portuguese because it was, it had been the highest priced. there were a lot of them on the market. and it was the most popular, and everyone would recognize it. so they wanted to choose what they called their star piece to test. and they discovered that the pamphlet called simply sonnets, redding, 1847, was on paper that could not have been available before 1868 because it contained things that they didn't use. paper was made of 100% rag in 1847. so they then went back also and tested the typographical fonts and discovered that those were also not available at the time. i see myself as a rescuer -- [laughter] of the material object which is as much an artifact historically as a dinosaur bone is ark yo logically. the reason it's important to collect books is to preserve the history. the material book represents not just the text embodied within it, but all the production that went into it and the manufacturing of it and the sales and distribution and the arguments back and forth between the author and the publisher. the material book,

they chose elizabeth barrett browning's sonnets from the portuguese because it was -- it had been thehest priced. there were a lot of them on the market. and it was the most popular, and everyone would recognize it. so they wanted to choose what they called their star piece to test. and they discovered that the pamphlet called is simply sonnet s redding, 1847, was on paper that could not have been available before 1868. paper was made of 100% rag in 1847. so they then went back also and tested the typographical fonts and discovered that those were also not available at the time. i see myself as a rescuer -- [laughter] of the material object which is as much an artifact historically as a dinosaur bone is ark logically. the reason it's -- ark logically. the reason it's important to collect books is to preserve the history. the book represents, the material book represents not just the text embodied within it, but all the production that went into it and the manufacturing of it and the sales and distribution and the arguments back and forth between the author and the publisher. the mater