Milner, Thomas. The History of England: From the Invasions of Julius Caesar to the Year A.D. 1852. With Early Notices for the British Archipelago. Summaries of the State of the People at Different Periods, their Maritime Operations, Commerce, Literature, and Political Progress. For Schools and Families. (Educational series). London, The Religious Tract Society, s.a.
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- CAVAFY LIBRARY
English
18.5 x 11 cm; 2 s.p. + XII p. + 808 p. + 4 appendix p. + 2 s.p. + 3 inserts, l. 1 bookplate CPC and Alexandros Cavafy’s signature struck through with pencil and new signature of C. P. Cavafy with pencil, “Angleterre” marked in ink on recto, p. [I] title page, p. [III]-XII “Contents”, between p. XII and [1] are pages with bound map of the book, p. [1]-5 “Introduction”. Marks with pencil and ink on p. 185, 310, 403, 416, 417, 464, 465, 593, 614, reading trace with blue ink on p. 310. Between p. 218-219 there is a photograph inserted with the portrait of Oliver Cromwell by the painter Samuel Cooper. Between p. 464-465 there is a handwritten note inserted regarding a point on p. 465, which bears the signature “C.F.C”. Newspaper clipping The Queen, the Lady’s Newspaper between p. 574-575, date “July 21, 1883”, book review about The Princesses of Wales by Barbara Clay Finch. P. 808 colophon, p. [I]-IV appendix with list of titles by the publishing house. Calculations marked with pencil on recto of the back cover. Illustration and maps are found on several places in the print.
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Constantine Cavafy
Alexander Cavafy
Insects found between p. 180-181, 230-231 and a dried flower between p. 502-503.
The handwritten note found inserted in the document is linked with the book *Jésuites!* by Paul Féval, Paris-Bruxelles, Société générale de Librairie Catholique, 1877 [GR-OF CA CL.8.101](https://cavafy.onassis.org/object/jesuites/). The handwritten note inserted contains a citation to Féval’s book and seems to have drawn information from p. 134-135.
The handwritten note on p. 310 and the insert were transcribed for the first time by Michaila Karampini-Iatrou. See Diana Haas, “Constantine Cavafy’s Constantinopoliad an Epic”, in: Zitimata istorias ton neoellinikon grammaton: Afieroma ston K. Th. Dimara, Paratiritis, Thessaloniki 1994, p. 291-292.
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