There was a fascinating article in yesterday’s Guardian by Wayne Gooderham about an exhibition he has curated at the Charing Cross Road branch of Foyles, on ‘the secret contents of secondhand books’. Gooderham keeps a lovely blog of book inscriptions, but he writes in the Guardian about some of the other kinds of things that lurk between the covers of old books. Over the years, he discovered, staff at the Skoob Books warehouse have gathered a considerable collection of photographs, postcards, tickets and bills of numerous varieties, postage stamps, pressed flowers, bookmarks, and even a cemetery map – each one carefully noted and collated, and each a tangible yet mysterious trace of some past reader’s presence…

Gooderham’s exhibition continues until 13th December.