Finds at work.
While searching for some books in our uncatalogued FCO material I just found 5 volumes of 1st editions of James Legge's translations of the Chinese classics. They made me very happy. Especially as the characters are so much nicer than in the Dover reprints. I also found an AMAZING book of 19th century Bushman folktales. They had the original language one one side and the English translation on the other. Complete with the names of the people who told the story, the date and who they heard it from. There were also pictures of them. It would be Such a fantastic resource to someone studying in that field. Lovely treasure of oral history and folklore. I'm liking my job again, though I am also glad that after today I'll only have 4 days left till the Christmas holiday! HORRAY!