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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Sep 8

Everyone has bad days, even Coleridge, who, in a fit of despair, planned to 'bid farewell forever' to poetry at the age of twenty-two. This unpublished autograph letter marks a key moment of transition in the poet's life. bit.ly/Q-Coleridge2...

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Sep 7

🕰️ This beautifully printed collection of 71 shorter works by Thomas Aquinas was published 535 years ago #onthisday.

📖 THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor. Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September 1490.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Internet informs us that today is #InternationalBaconDay … they did mean English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626), right?

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Sep 5

👋 Just one week until the York Book Fair opens! Come say hello at Stand 30 – register for complimentary tickets here: yorkbookfair.com/complimentar...

Where: Stand 30, Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, York YO23 1EX
When: Friday 12 September and Saturday 13 September

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 30

It is likely '[to Creve's experiments] that Percy Shelley referred in his Preface to Frankenstein when he insisted that “the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr Darwin and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence”’ (Mellor, 1978).

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 30

It was the basis of Sir Humphry Davy's Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, likely 'the only strictly scientific work Mary Shelley mentioned reading' in her journal on 28 October 1816 whilst working on Frankenstein (Crouch, Davy's A Discourse, 1978).

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 30

Pictured here is Creve's 1796 Vom Metallreize, proposed a method of electrocuting corpses to see if they were really dead, citing as case studies those who were buried alive (or narrowly avoided it!).

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 30

'Hateful day when I received life! Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?' Mary Shelley, born 228 years ago #OTD, developed a keen interest in galvanism and the reanimation of the dead whilst writing Frankenstein. bit.ly/Q-Creve-H5445 🧵

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 28

When Stella premiered in Hamburg on 8 February 1776, it was immediately prohibited. Goethe changed the ending for a performance in Weimar in 1806 (published in 1816), turning the play into a tragedy in which Stella takes poison and Fernando shoots himself.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 28

You've heard of Faust & Werther, but did you know that Goethe was also the author of a play about a throuple? Written at the age of 27, Stella (1776) ends with Stella, Cecilia, and Fernando finding love in 'one home, one bed, and one grave'. bit.ly/Q-Goethe-G1181

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 25

These delightful doodles were made c. 1896 in northern France by fifteen-year-old Sara Thérèse d’Aurignac, whose sketchbook features humorous vignettes, imaginative anthropomorphism, dancing devils, and scenes of leisure.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fun ways to spend your bank holiday:
- Cooking for friends and family (note: cooking friends and family generally frowned upon)
- Stealing a large pig and replacing it with a pig-shaped decoy
- Glaring at cyclists who don't stop at red lights
- Having a night on the town

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 22

There were two published English translations of Estelle, both by women, although the text here is different from both of these: Stella, a pastoral Romance (1791), by Elizabeth Morgan, and Estelle (1798) by Susanna Cummyng. (3/3 🧵 )

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dedicating her translation to one Ellen, our translator signs herself 'M.F.' and asks the recipient to forgive its faults: ‘How could she this translation make / Without a blot or a mistake’ when every time ‘a passage did perplex, / And with its difficulties vex, / Thy image would intrude’. (2/3 🧵 )

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy Women in Translation month! This unpublished manuscript translation of the 1788 French pastoral romance Estelle was produced by a woman for a female friend in the early nineteenth century. (1/3 🧵 )

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 17

524 years ago today in Milan, Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler printed this volume of Juvenal's satires for the papermaker, bookseller, and publisher Giovanni da Legnano. bit.ly/Q-Juvenal-G2...

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our copy was presented by the author on 1 August 1735, hinting at the his intention of presenting this book as a prompt and instrument for the actual devotion of the Novena of the Assumption, having been delivered well in time for a nine-day commitment ahead of the Feast itself.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 15

Today is Assumption Day! This very rare devotional work, printed in Rome in 1735, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary into Heaven and guides the reader on a nine-day journey toward the Feast of the Assumption.

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · Aug 12

New acq

Of AMERICA.

Silk, Honey, Black Amber, Ec. It was exceeding populous before the Arrival of
the Spaniards, who in feventeen Years, as Hiftorians tell us, flew fix Millions of
them, rendring the Name of Chriftianity, which they pretended to teach them, odi-ouis to thele poor Heathens by their Cruelties

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Aug 12

God I so love the @quaritch1847.bsky.social Q on a parcel.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 12

We’re inclined to agree!

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Aug 12

In his diary in 1896, member of @theul.bsky.social staff Charles Sayle called this portrait ‘quite the most marvellous piece of engraving of the period that … I have seen’.

Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 12

How we're feeling in this heat wave 🥵

This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 12

From our forthcoming Summer Miscellany list – sign up to our mailing list via the link in our bio for exclusive lists and early access to our latest catalogues. bit.ly/Q-stayintouch

📚 CARTWRIGHT, William. Comedies, Tragi-comedies, with other Poems … London, Humphrey Moseley, 1651.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · Aug 12

How we're feeling in this heat wave 🥵

This slumping scholar is the poet and playwright William Cartwright (1611–1643), a favourite of Charles I and a follower of Ben Jonson, who said that Cartwright 'writes like a man'.

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Skeabrae @skeabrae.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Home is where the books are"..

Richard Burton

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