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As it’s Hallowe’en, it seemed an appropriate day to share this, one of the books I shall be exhibiting next week at the Boston book fair: It’s a copy of the rare first edition of a curious novel, narrated by the wandering spirit of a man who, in a nod to the opening lines of […]

We have just released a new e-list relating to Anglomanie, or the madness for all things English in 18th-century France, and figured we would share with our readers one of our favourites from the list: Nancy, published in 1767 by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’Arnaud (1718–1805). Our copy is bound with another of his novels, Lucie […]