roy gold collection

roy gold was a very interesting man who owned a huge collection of books, 30,000 or thereabouts. he used to enjoy embellishing the covers with paint, pencil or whatever else was laying about. some of the time the designs were purely aesthetic and other times they reflected how he felt about the book's contents. either way you should take a look at more here.

the website tells you a little about roy as well as his books:

"At six-feet-four and with a propensity for detailed cursing, he cut a familiar if controversial figure as a professor at Cambridge. Often distracted and occasionally rambunctious, he was once accused by a prominent dean of being a disgrace. “I may be a disgrace,” he replied, “but I intend to stay until I’m an outrage.”

He retired aged 87, his letter of notice painted on a university library copy of Borges’ A Universal History of Infamy, and died aged 96 at his home in Bedlands."