Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
26th July 2017
This is a copy of the first edition of a hugely-successful play, published 1803, thought to be the first ‘dog drama’, which began a vogue for the use of trained animals on the London stage. Playwright Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841) wrote this afterpiece set in bandit-ridden Spain for Drury Lane, where it was first performed on […]
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17th March 2016
A friend on Facebook pointed out a recent piece on fake places that only exist to catch copycat mapmakers. ‘If a competitor just so happens to have the same fake town on their map, then you’ve pretty much caught them red-handed.’ It reminded me of something similar in a book I have: The Oxford-Duden Pictorial […]
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