Category Archives: Cambridge

Marley Was Dead: To Begin With.

Posted on December 10, 2012 by

An arresting start to a novel: note especially the strange punctuation, copied exactly from the first edition of 1843.

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Classical Journals

Posted on November 12, 2012 by

We are in the process of reissuing seven classical journals from the period when the scholarly journal (in the humanities at any rate) was a relatively new phenomenon. The eighteenth century saw the rise of the periodical – though I … Continue reading →

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More Things Found in Books

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

A quick update: yesterday (in The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna, Followed by the Life of Mozart, with Observations on Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy, by Stendhal – it … Continue reading →

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Babbage’s Calculating Engines

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

I think I’m right in saying that Charles Babbage (1791–1871) is the only author we have reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection whose books have covers in all three colours – red for his work on the printing industry, On … Continue reading →

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Eton and King’s

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

Christmas, a few years ago now, wouldn’t have been Christmas without an M.R. James ghost story for Christmas Eve, courtesy of the BBC. Looking up exactly what was transmitted when, I was interested to see that the first of the … Continue reading →

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