Adopt a Book

Looking for a unique gift for friends and family? Adopt a Book makes a great gift for birthdays, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day and graduations, or a thoughtful gift in memory of a loved one.

A perfect gift for bibliophiles of all ages, adopt a book and help the British Library's vital Conservation programme.

Adopt a book now.

Donation levels & benefits
	£1000	£150	£30
Choose from our standard booklist		x	x
Choose a book from the Library's wider collection (contact us for details)	x
Customised e-certificate (new designs coming soon)	x	x	x
Invitation to annual "Meet Your Book" event	x	x	x
Voucher for tour of the British Library	x	x
Tour of our the Centre for Conservation (BLCC)	x
Customised bookplate placed inside your adopted book or in its preservation box	x
Your name added to our Annual Report and Adopt a Book Benefactors' Board in the BLCC	x

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Carvalho's Town and Country Valentine Writer, or Lover's Repository
by S Carhvalho, 1820

Adopt this book for Valentine's Day

This charming little book, believed to assist the uninspired in composing their own valentine’s verses, contains rhymes to suit specific tradesmen such as bakers and brewers. An excerpt from an Architect:

"I've plann'd an edifice of hope,
And trust that you’ll agree,
To give my fancy al’ its scope,
Which is to dwell with me.
The best build form I e’er did see,
Is that fair maid, of thine;
O may thy words propitious be.
Most lovely Valentine.

Answer

Why, Architect, I like your plan,
If e’er I wed, why you’re the man;
Till then I to your love incline
And own myself your Valentine.”