Thursday, 29 September 2011
I had a phone call from John Murray on Friday. He said he’d been reading my blog about our new facsimile of South Polar Times. ...
I had a phone call from John Murray on Friday. He said he’d been reading my blog about our new facsimile of South Polar Times. ...
Peter Suart came in on Friday to sign his etchings for the new Gulliver’s Travels – the final stage of a project which has been ...
Last Wednesday I went to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to check the proofs of vellum leaves from a psalter by William de Brailes. I ...
Back in the office after a wonderful holiday in the Abruzzo - our hovel was just behind this castle at Rocca di Calascio. Amongst ...
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