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Chelsea Rare Book Fair. 3-4 November 2023

Chelsea Rare Book Fair. 3-4 November 2023

On Friday and Saturday this week we will be in the King’s Road for the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair. For two days only, Chelsea Old Town Hall - the home of the London celebrity wedding - turns itself over to the infinitely more glamorous, beautiful and star-studded crowd that...

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Henry Kirke White among the Romantics

Henry Kirke White among the Romantics

Death by reading This short list of books takes as its starting point the youthful, Romantic figure of Henry Kirke White. Dying in 1806 before he could become famous, White was the subject of a nineteenth-century cult fostered by Robert Southey and among whose devotees were Keats, Byron, Shelley and...

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A January Dozen. A short list to cheer up the New Year

A January Dozen. A short list to cheer up the New Year

Welcome to the New Year and our first short list of 2023 designed to cheerus up, wipe away our tears get us leaping out of bed. Fairies and physics, Japanese and Czech design, an American President and a Russian Emperor, satire and scholarship. Click on the picture of the Elfin Dance...

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