Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

It's the dream of many a reader, a vast library, stocked with beautiful leather-bound

tomes in all sizes and colors, and inside their stiff covers, pages of sepia-toned vellum

with the words of the greatest writers in history, like Austin, Dumas, and Shakespeare.

Rare book collections often have these volumes in their own libraries, some behind glass,

others in thick vaults, but one book has eluded every reader and collector for over 100

years, and for good reason, because no one can get to it.

It had started life as a series of poems written in the 11th and 12th centuries by Persian

Polymath Omar K.M. In the mid-1800s, a poet named Edward Fitzgerald decided to translate

these quadrains into a collection called The Ruby Ott of Omar K.M. Ruby Ott is Persian,

by the way, for quadrrain.

Starrows' book became quite popular all the way into the 20th century, so much so that

English bookstore owner John Stonehouse commissioned a special edition of the collection for his own

shop.

In 1910, he went to London Bookbiner's Sengorsky and Sutcliffe, known for their impeccable

quality and flair for the dramatic.

Stonehouse instructed co-owner Francis Sengorsky to, do it and do it well, there is no limit,

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