Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
12th August 2021
Yesterday I published my annual summer Theatre list, and I thought I would share here details of one of the items featured. It is a series of etchings published to commemorate the first Cambridge Greek Play, from 1883. ‘The tradition of performing a Greek play in Cambridge goes back to 1882, when the very first […]
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29th September 2017
I’m currently cataloguing towards the Boston book fair, and am enjoying working through things acquired over the summer. Here’s one: It’s a lithographed facsimile of a letter in Greek, signed by the President and four members of the Philomuse Society of Athens, 14 August 1819. It was probably printed at the instigation of the Earl of […]
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