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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 […]

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 […]