On 1 August 2012 13:05, Andrew West <andrewcw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently on sale for £5,000, and the blog's author pleads: "There > must surely be an individual or institution who would be willing and > able to properly document the contents of Cotton's unique record of > Newgate's executions and put the results into the public domain." > Wikisource would be the perfect channel for putting the contents of > the journal into the public domain, if only we could get scans of the > whole book.
Note, incidentally, that there must be some interesting overlap between this and Old Bailey Online, which will document many of the trials that preceded the hangings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18120513-5-person102 - for example, is also covered in Cotton. > What's the possibility of WMUK buying the book for £5,000, scanning it > to Commons, then selling the book privately or to a dealer to recover > most of the money spent? I suspect that we would be unlikely to get more than half that were we to sell it direct to a dealer, and goodness only knows if we were to sell it privately. It's a bit of a gamble with donor funds! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
