The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • [George E. Sargent], The Story of a Pocket Bible (RTS, n.d.).  An object narrative: the novel's narrator is, indeed, a bible.  (I also own an abridged American edition.)  For Sargent's career, see here.  (eBay)
  • [William Combe], Doctor Syntax (Frederick Warne, n.d.).  Omnibus edition of the three Tours in Search of...--the Picturesque, a Wife, and Consolation--which began as a parody of William Gilpin.  The poems were commissioned by Thomas Rowlandson to accompany his engravings, some of which you can see at the Royal Academy of Arts.  (Gift from colleague)
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant (NYRB, 2001).  Reprint of Compton-Burnett's social satire, featuring an absolutely horrible paterfamilias.  (eBay)
  • David Paul Nord, Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media  in America (OUP, 2004).  Studies the role of religious publishers in shaping American book-buying and reading practices.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Episcopal Magazine and Church of England Warder, vol. I (four issues, 1839).  Despite the title, this was actually a Scottish Episcopal periodical, initially published as Stephen's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal.  First four issues from 1839 only; bound in with the next entry.  (eBay)
  • The Scottish Magazine and Churchman's Review (var., 1849-53).  Seven issues of another Scottish Episcopal periodical; you can see the first volume here. (eBay)
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