Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The Great Rare-Book Road-Trip Crime Spree Of 1980 (And Its Ignominious End)

A pair of thieves spent that summer driving from Texas to Maryland to Illinois, going into university libraries and cutting out lithographs and engravings from 19th-century naturalist journals and newsweeklies that they would sell piece by piece – until, at last, they were foiled by a foolhardy change of method and an air-conditioning maintenance man.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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