Others seemed to be stocking up on even more than stories, as stewards feared they could run out of glasses inscribed with "Camp David," while helicopter crews were far too polite to comment on the clanking jackets of departing dignitaries.
"A Tale of Two Cities (published 21 November 1859) is the earliest title that Dickens could have inscribed to George Eliot while knowing her identity," the bookseller writes in its catalogue.
The cast gave the producers inscribed Cartier SA watches, while the producers gave the cast Neil Lane jewelry.
Then there was Madonna daringly and ever so rebelliously lifting her leg and plonking it on a table while she inscribed her signature for the sake of art – "human art", as she helpfully delineated, drawing the distinction between the latter and, presumably, animal or insect art.
William Adam's Hamilton Parish Church (1729 32), was a Greek cross plan inscribed in a circle, while John Douglas's Killin Church (1744) was octagonal.
Two black ones (one inscribed with "It's OK" while the other countered "It's Not OK") rested on plastic sheets on the floor.
Better, he thought, to have busts of all the presidents, not just four, in a lush landscape that visitors could walk right through while consulting plaques inscribed with biographical information.
On a recent Thursday, Yossy Yoshino, 35, a tattoo artist from Japan, lay face down on a massage table at Smith Street Tattoo Parlour while Dan Santoro, 31, inscribed a pig in a bikini on his back ("three tops, one for each set of teats," Mr. Santoro explained).
Death still laps at the edge of every frame, and our vision is flooded for a while by the names of the deceased, inscribed within the synagogues of Vienna and Prague.
Several books, like the 321-page tome that he owned about ant communities, were picked out with his daughter Jean, a nature lover, in mind, while books about music were inscribed to Clara.
