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Disambiguating 18C Tailpieces
I have recently completed an ornament catalogue for Thomas Gardner (fl.1735–65). On the day I submitted it for publication I found a book on eBay which has an ornament which is extremely similar to one...
View ArticleIdentifying Eliza Haywood's Sources
I have just read Douglas Duhaime’s essay on “Digital Approaches to Intertextuality: The Case of Eliza Haywood,” which was published on his blog on 3 January this year (see here; for a profile of...
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More on a Popular 18C Tailpiece Design
In January I did a post (here) on an eighteenth-century printer's ornament design, which appears in two ornaments by Thomas Gardner (T03 and T04; used 1735–56) and another used by T. Saint in 1785. The...
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Vale God Whitlam
Gough Whitlam is dead. Long live Gough Whitlam! Will there ever be such another?I don’t remember the dismissal, but I clearly remember the election-night party that followed it in 1975. My family were...
View ArticleRecent activity on this blog
Although it looks like I have been neglecting this blog: don't be fooled! I have been regularly updating my previous posts, particularly my lists of Eliza Haywood Texts, Links etc. (and, last year,...
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Woman Reading, a Seventeenth-Century Sketch in Pen and Ink
Although I haven't been posting them, I have still been collecting images of women reading. This one is a seventeenth-century sketch in pen and ink. The vendor, "Once upon a time in rome" on eBay, did...
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Chatteris Family Bible, 1599
On three blank pages between the Old and New Testaments, in a “1599” Geneva Bible (above; the date is false, the Bible was probably printed after 1640) appears some genealogical records in an early...
View ArticleA Favourite Parlour Game: How Rare are Eighteenth-Century Books?
A few times now (here and here) I have quoted a comment made by Peter Opie in his Accession DiariesIt took me some time before I realised that 'rare books are common.' I probably acquire an item or two...
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Baker Street Reader, ca.1866
As you can see, above, this young woman was photographed in the sudio of Window and Bridge, just three hundred metres from Sherlock Holmes' digs at 221b Baker Street, London. (In fact, not only was...
View ArticleA Catalogue of Advertised Books
In 1970, R. J. Roberts mentioned an intriguing “scheme put up by Mr. David Foxon for an eighteenth-century catalogue based on advertisements for new books” (in his “Towards a Short-Title Catalogue of...
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Mary Motley Reading, ca.1860
As you can see above, written in pencil across the top of the old matte for this photo is “Mary Motley” (left image); on the bottom verso is “a Hall, I’ll bet. not [sure] photo of.” (right image) I...
View ArticleThe Witch of Berkeley: Devotee of Gluttony and Wantonness
In Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures (2009), Amma warns Ethan "One day you're gonna pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through." Curiosity-driven or blue-sky...
View ArticleItems Published or Sold by Haywood at the Sign of Fame
Below are links to the small number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editions of works published or sold by Eliza Haywood that are on Google Books, The Internet Archive, etc. (The item numbers are...
View ArticleAnother Example of Full Page Slip-Cancellation
An article, which I started writing as a blog entry in 2009 (!), was published last year: “Cancelled Errata in John Buncle, Junior, Gentleman,” Script and Print, vol.38, no.2 (June 2014): 115–21...
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De Castigatione Maleficarum; Or: The Punishment of Witches
The next thread in the history of my page from Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) involves Vincent of Beauvais [aka Vincentius Burgundus] (d. 1264?) and Olaus Magnus (d.1557). (For my first post on this page,...
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Southey's Ballad on The Witch of Berkeley, 1799
The third thread in the history of my page from Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) involves Robert Southey (1774–1843). (See here and here for my previous posts.) In 1778, Southey wrote "A Ballad. Shewing how...
View ArticleEarly Criticism on Eliza Haywood
Thanks to Google Books, the Internet Archive and the scanning projects of various libraries, a lot of early (i.e., out-of-copyright) critical material—apart from reviews—is now available online. In the...
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The Betsy Thoughtless Stockmarket
The first book by Eliza Haywood that I purchased was the Pandora edition of Betsy Thoughtless (1986). I bought it on 9 December 1991 for $10. I don't know how many copies of Betsy Thoughtless I have...
View ArticleA French Review of Haywood's The Rash Resolve (1724)
The following very short review is of Emanuella, a French translation of Haywood’s The Rash Resolve, which appears in the Bibliothèque Française 9 (Nivôse An 9 [December 1800–January 1801]): 190–91...
View ArticleA Typical Research Day
Although, for me, only one day each week is flagged as a research day—a day on which I am not expected to either teach or attend meetings—I do research at all times of the day and all days of the week....
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