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Re: The Theosophist: Facsimile Reprints of the First 14 Volumes

Jan 24, 2005 05:35 PM
by Daniel H. Caldwell


Konstantin,

The description you give below may be
accurate to many of the EARLY Kessinger
reprints but does NOT describe the
practice of including the orginal title
page, etc. in reprints of the last few
years from Kessinger.

For example, look at the reprints of
LUCIFER volumes I and II.

Daniel



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Konstantin Zaitzev" 
<kay_ziatz@y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In theos-talk "Daniel H. Caldwell" wrote:
> 
> > As far as the contention that the
> > reprints are "bad photocopies" or of "low
> > quality", if anyone has bought copies of the 
> > Kessinger reprints of HPB's LUCIFER, Volumes
> > I and II, these two volumes are nicely
> > reproduced. I was amazed at how well they
> > were reproduced. Maybe I am more easily
> > impressed than others?? 
> 
> I haven't seen the reprints you have mentioned but I mean things 
like 
> books beginning not from the first page (probably lacking preface), 
> big pages with the small print at the center of them (pocket-book 
> reproduced on the A4 sheets) and so on. Often the title page is 
also 
> missing and we cant determine from whci printing the copy was made.
> I understand that the quailty of the print itself depends on the 
state 
> of the original, but it is not the case.






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