A book containing works by Lord Byron, a Romantic poet, described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," not the first, returned to the library after spending his life elsewhere, but quite possibly one of the longest delayed books in libraries overall. In July, a card "Dom Cano," made of reinforced plastic, illustrated by Alan Baidom, returned to the Orkney library, after more than 47 years of delay, found during the cleaning of one house.
"It is incredibly hard to return to the idea that part of the history of St. Biza comes back to us after all these years," said Kipp Bi-Bi-Si. St. Biza is a mixed daily and internal school that is 430 years old.
Despite the diminishing powers, it was produced in the 15th battalion in 1915 for participation in World War I, where he was killed in battle on February 23, 1916, by a bullet to the head and buried in the cemetery of the Dugausk Iron Road in Ieper, Belgium.
"We feel proud to return this book," said the school director, Andrew Kipp.
Ivbank, born in 1893, was a student at St. Biza from 1902 to 1911, before continuing his education at Queen's College, Oxford.