Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
4th May 2018
As I wrote last week, we have been working on a new catalogue, British Music: 200 years of performance, public and private. It’s been enjoyable putting it together, doing the necessary research, and making some discoveries. Here’s one: This little engraved card (114 x 78 mm) is an apparently unrecorded song, written in support of […]
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29th March 2017
One of the (almost daily) joys of working with old books is discovering something you never knew before. With this book, a novel published in Berlin, 1862–3, it was a new author: Emil Mario Vacano. Often cited in histories of gay writing, Vacano (1840–1892) is certainly ‘one of the strangest literary figures of the nineteenth […]
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