Tarquin Tar's Bookcase

"Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. If your soul be satiate and weary, change from garden to garden, from furrow to furrow, from sight to sight. Then will your desire renew itself and your soul be satisfied with delight." - Judah Ibn Tibbon

Sunday, November 13, 2016

A Deliberately Non-Partisan Post

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Tarquin Tar’s Bookcase is a non-partisan blog. I will, therefore, refrain here from commenting in a partisan fashion on the apparent elec...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Hannah More and the Women of Rank and Fortune

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After a hiatus of nearly five years, during which time Tarquin Tar's Bookcase was in abeyance to make way for the arrival of firs...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Support Tarquin's Bookcase and Your Own!

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If you're a regular reader of my blog, you may recall a time long ago when I deaccessioned some items that would be of interest to other...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Off With His Head! A Broken and Rebound Collection of 18th Century Drama

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This week’s book is a fine owner-made collection of seven plays (six comedies and one historical tragedy) written and staged by the f...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Elephants and Camels From an Early American Book Empire

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the worthwhile goal of owning an example imprint from specific, influential printers, such as th...
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