Updates on the Tosti collection

Hello eve
ryone,
We have found more original bindings in the Tosti collection, which is pretty exciting! I was interested to find three duplicate volumes with the same prints, bound in the same original bindings. The end papers in all of these volumes are the same marbled paper, which is really cool to see for people interested in paper decoration. Here is a picture of the papers:

 The fact that there are three duplicate volumes raises some of the same questions that we've been having, such as: did Tosti purchase these compiled volumes and then have them bound in the Vatican Library bindings? How did he select which prints to purchase? It is very interesting to see which prints appear together, and I feel like every time I open a new package, there are new questions.

There is also some work that I have been doing at home, mainly cleaning up my own data. I have been looking at my Excel spreadsheets to make sure that things are relatively standardized, like ensuring that I use similar wording in condition reports. I hope that this relative standardization will help the next person who looks at these spreadsheets.