Book returned to Australian library – 150 years overdue

The book, Antiquities of Athens, was handed back to Kiama library by a man who found it bricked into a wall An Australian public library has had a book returned an estimated 150 years late after being found behind a wall during a home renovation. The book, Antiquities of Athens, published in 1858, was returned to the l

A 150-year-overdue book resurfaces in an Australian library, found bricked in a fireplace  Toronto Star

A public library in Australia has had a book returned an estimated 150 years late

A public library in Australia has had a book returned an estimated 150 years late

Avid reader Walter Griffith Owen checked out Paradise and King Lear over a century ago, in 1910, and failed to return them one week later.

A NSW library has a book returned rather late, but the policy of fining people for the offence was dropped at some point during the 150 years since it was borrowed.

A Welsh library received an unusual visit from a man who arrived to return a pair of books his grandfather had checked out 116 years earlier.