Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
7th February 2013
I am always drawn to 18th-century foreign novels with some kind of connection to Britain. (For another, read this earlier blog post.) Here’s a French one I had a while ago, ‘The Dangers of loving a Foreigner’ from 1783, written by an otherwise unknown author called Witart de Bézu. Written in epistolary form, it tells how […]
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14th February 2012
This is an early commercial ‘valentine writer’, dating from about 1811, comprising 65 verse Valentines and Answers, from which a tongue-tied Regency beau or belle could select to copy onto the reverse of the frontispiece before giving the engraving, as a Valentine’s Day card, to the object of his or her affection. This one was […]
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