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Not really a faux pas, ratslice . We all have pseudonyms and could be one or the other. I am intrigued by your username, but I dare not ask :)

ratslice is also part of my email address. It is a mix of two pseudonyms when I shared a small internet business with another guy selling antiquarian books. So the name combined ratfink (not sure how I got this moniker) + slicer (because he always went wildly to the right off the tee at golf).

Sorry - you did ask!

People have always wondered whether it was rat slice or rat's lice.
Neither sound terribly nice.

Ah, thanks so nothing awful then. That's good.
re antiquarian books, I have two very large, heavy, leatherbound volumes handed down from my great grandfather (The history of engand )

Jazzgirl - what's the title + author +date + publisher

Old England - Museum of popular antiquities - vol. 1 and 11
James Sangster and Co. Paternoster Row
Falling to bits, pages foxed, leather scuffed : 0)

.. edited by Charles Knight.
Where would I find the date ?

. printed by William Clowes and Sons
Stamford Street and Charing Cross

Jazzgirl - value more of interest and sentiment than monetary. Condition + scarcity tends to be the indicator of what's sought after. Still, they probably look good on the bookshelf.

Jazzgirl - date should be on the title page. Should be between 1850-90. Sometimes the date wasn't entered on the title page.

Thanks ratslice.
I wasn't interested in value or selling. I often look at them .
There's no value in sentiment I know .
They make a good talking point now and then :)