Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
10th March 2015
I am currently reading my way chronologically through Dickens’ novels. I started this reading project last year, but as I’m not reading them back to back (and I’m actually quite a slow reader), I’m only as far as The Old Curiosity Shop. With the tale of Little Nell still fresh in my mind, I was interested […]
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26th November 2014
I had quite a bit of interest when I wrote about this book over on The New Antiquarian, so thought I’d share it here, too. I’ve written before about a fictitious Boston imprint. That book had no obvious connection with the United States, but this one does: it’s an early satire on emigration to America, from 1818. […]
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9th January 2014
‘At the time of the October Revolution, the Russians based their conception of American culture on a combination of impressions derived from books of fact and fiction … There was no dearth of facts about the United States, but there were huge quantities of misinformation and myth. ‘American literature in tsarist times had done little to […]
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