Pop Up Books in the Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, has some unusual books for sale and also some very old ones. Find out about there oldest one.
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00:00 Hello, it's Adam Smoot from the Express the Star and we're at the Pop-Up Bookshop in the Manda Centre
00:05 with Judith Goodman and in our hand is what we think might be the oldest book for sale in Wolverhampton.
00:12 It is a 1752 Latin version of Observations de Er et Morbis Epidemics which is actually
00:24 written by female author Joanne Huxham. Tell me about this book Judith.
00:30 Well I bought some of these books, they're from a Glasgow library and they were from a friend of
00:36 mine who was a book dealer and he'd bought the whole lot from the library and they are rare and
00:40 scarce but really difficult to sell because of the subject and the fact that they're written in Latin
00:45 or Greek and it was a shame because he unfortunately died recently but he, so I bought his books but he
00:54 never got a chance to sell an awful lot of them because he had dementia and that was...
00:57 What would be interesting if there's anybody out there who reads Latin and also understands about
01:05 medical issues because imagine what 1752's medical thoughts would be about what illnesses
01:13 was going around in Wolverhampton. So we're at the Pop-Up Bookshop and how long are you here for?
01:19 We're here until the 21st of April, we're here for a nice long time this time, we were here for
01:25 three months in total, well we have been here for four weeks and we've got most subjects I think
01:31 that people would like to read or look at. What are Wolverhampton bookworms favourite
01:36 subjects would you say? Well massive railway fans so there's a huge amount of railway
01:41 books we stock and we have regulars come in most days just to browse through them and they do
01:48 stop and add to their collection obviously and then we have there's a huge military section
01:53 which is very popular in history but the classics like Jane Austen, Alice in Wonderland and the
01:59 Water Babies and Shakespeare. And what's your favourite book Judy? Well my favourite book is
02:04 actually and it's a bit weird but it's Black Beauty but it's terribly sad and I do actually
02:08 have 70 copies of it. Wow fantastic this is Adam Smith from the Express and Star with Judith
02:15 Goodman at the pop-up bookshop in the Mander Centre which is here until 21st of April and if
02:21 you can speak Latin and know a bit about medical issues come down and see if you can crack the code
02:27 of this 1752 classic about illnesses written in Latin.