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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5434233, member: 110504"]Incredible post for an only more incredible book, [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER]. Looks like people are doing it some Serious justice!</p><p>By way of splitting the chronological difference between the book and the subject matter, here's a denar of emperor Heinrich III (1039-1056), from Speyer. I like how the ship motif is complemented by Scandinavian peck-marks.[ATTACH=full]1236253[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1236254[/ATTACH]</p><p>...Meanwhile, it would be great to see some of the ms. annotation. I'm imagining an elegant, pristinely early Italic hand, comparable to the examples from Mary Queen of Scots.</p><p>I recently got one of the original, periodical printings of Samuel Johnson's <u>Rambler</u> essays. It's from a collection that was bound in the 18th century. One selling point was the ms. translation below the Ovidian motto, in a very 18th-century hand.</p><p> <img src="https://secure-images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/8.50.2020/image081.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The fun part of this is the source of the translation. It was by James Elphinstone, a Scotsman who had quickly published a very unauthorized edition in Edinburgh. Right, Waaaay before copyright laws. </p><p>...So watch what Johnson did. When the first official collected edition came out, a little later, Johnson included Elphinstone's translations, replete with attribution to "the ingenious Mr. James Elphinstone of Edingburgh."</p><p>...The two were in active, very amicable correspondence during the same interval. Turns out that Elphinstone, like Johnson, had 'Non-Juring' sympathies (...you could call it 'Jacobitism Lite'), more and less tacitly supporting the exiled Stuart dynasty. Especially following the end of the '45 Scots uprising, Jacobites on both sides of the border had to sort of keep that under their hats. But Johnson's appreciation of coloyalists was unflagging.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5434233, member: 110504"]Incredible post for an only more incredible book, [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER]. Looks like people are doing it some Serious justice! By way of splitting the chronological difference between the book and the subject matter, here's a denar of emperor Heinrich III (1039-1056), from Speyer. I like how the ship motif is complemented by Scandinavian peck-marks.[ATTACH=full]1236253[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1236254[/ATTACH] ...Meanwhile, it would be great to see some of the ms. annotation. I'm imagining an elegant, pristinely early Italic hand, comparable to the examples from Mary Queen of Scots. I recently got one of the original, periodical printings of Samuel Johnson's [U]Rambler[/U] essays. It's from a collection that was bound in the 18th century. One selling point was the ms. translation below the Ovidian motto, in a very 18th-century hand. [IMG]https://secure-images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/8.50.2020/image081.jpg[/IMG] The fun part of this is the source of the translation. It was by James Elphinstone, a Scotsman who had quickly published a very unauthorized edition in Edinburgh. Right, Waaaay before copyright laws. ...So watch what Johnson did. When the first official collected edition came out, a little later, Johnson included Elphinstone's translations, replete with attribution to "the ingenious Mr. James Elphinstone of Edingburgh." ...The two were in active, very amicable correspondence during the same interval. Turns out that Elphinstone, like Johnson, had 'Non-Juring' sympathies (...you could call it 'Jacobitism Lite'), more and less tacitly supporting the exiled Stuart dynasty. Especially following the end of the '45 Scots uprising, Jacobites on both sides of the border had to sort of keep that under their hats. But Johnson's appreciation of coloyalists was unflagging.[/QUOTE]
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