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GR-OF CA SING-S01-F03-SF002-0014 (1370)
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List of books
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28 x 22 cm

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Typewritten list of books on the recto of twelve sheets, in two copies. Sheets 2 to 12 are numbered at top left. Blank versos. Notes on the titles of one of the copies. All editions are in English. Dictionaries, historical and literary books as well as editions of Greek and Roman authors.

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CC BY-SA 4.0 Cavafy Archive Onassis Foundation

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English

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The catalogue constitutes the so-called “Finney list”, which includes books from Cavafy’s library that were intended for sale to Oswald Finney after the poet’s death. For further information, see Michaela Karampini-Iatrou, “Relics of a library: How C. P. Cavafy’s Library Survived through Auction, Sales, Books Loans, and Relocations”, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 30 (2012), 281-282.

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Works by other authors:
The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America [Robertson, William]
Modern Egypt [Baring Evelyn, Earl of Cromer]
On the Origin of Species [Darwin, Charles]
On Translating Homer [Arnold, Matthew]
Our country. A History of Scotland for the Young [Mackenzie, James Rev.]
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The fall of Troy [Quintus de Smyrne / Way, A. S.]
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion [Butler, Alfred J.]
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex [Darwin, Charles]
The Discoveries in Crete and their Bearing on the History of Ancient Civilisation [Burrows, Ronald Montagu]
The English Poets, Lessing, Rousseau: Essays [Lowell, James Russell]
The History of England [Milner, Thomas]
The History of Rome [Mommsen, Theodore/ Dickson, W.P.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Gibbon, Edward]
Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome [Macaulay, Thomas Babington]
The House of Seleucus [Bevan, Edwyn Robert]
The Iliad of Homer [Buckley, Theodore Alois]
The Life of Lorenzo De’ Medici, called The Magnificent [Roscoe, William]
The life, letters, and journals of Lord Byron [Moore, Thomas]
The Myths of Plato [Stewart, J. A.]
The Odyssey in English verse [Homer/ Mackail, John William]
The Plays of Euripides [Euripides / Coleridge, E. P.]
The Works of Virgil [Dryden, John]
Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses [Hardy, Thomas]
An Historical Greek Grammar [Jannaris, Antonius Nicholas]
Memorabilia Cantabrigiae, or An Account of the Different Colleges in Cambridge. [Wilson, Joseph]
Critical Miscellanies [Morley, John]
History of Ancient Greek Literature [Murray, Gilbert]
A Book of Greek Verse [Headlam, Walter]
A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language with copious Etymological Derivations of Noah Webster [Webster, Noah]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology [Smith, William]
A General History of Rome [Merivale, Charles]
A History of Greece; From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great [Grote, George]
A Journal of the Plague Year [Defoe, Daniel]
Abbas II [Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer]
Achilles Tatius with an English Translation [Achilles Tatius / Gaselee, Stephen]
An Irish-English Dictionary [O’Reilly, Edward]
Antiquities of the Jews [Flavius, Josephus]
Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography
"Philostratus. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana" [Philostratus/ Conybeare, F. C.]
Democracy and Reaction [Hobhouse, L. T.]
Essays in Literature and History [Fronde, J .A.]
Essays in the Art of Writing [Stevenson, Robert Louis]
Essays [Ingleby, Clement Mansfield]
Europe and the Turks [Buxton, Noel]
Familiar Studies of Men and Books [Stevenson, Robert Louis]
From Cyprus to Zanzibar [Vizetelly, Edward]
Greece Under the Romans [Finlay, George]
Greek Studies. A series of essays [Pater, Walter]
Life in Ancient Athens [Tucker, Thomas George]
Life of Nelson [Southey, Robert]
Literary Character of Men of Genius [D' Israeli, Isaac]
PERSONS:
Achilles Tatius
Austen, Jane
Bevan, Edwyn Robert
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (Lord Lytton)
Burrows, Ronald Montagu
Butler, Alfred J.
Byron, George Gordon
Carlyle Aitken, Mary
Carlyle, Thomas
Chambers, Robert W.
Churchill, Winston
Dante Alighieri
Dickens, Charles
Disraeli, Isaac
Eliot, George
Euripides
Fielding, Henry
Finlay, George
Flavius Josephus
Gibbon, Edward
Goldsmith, Oliver
Grimm, Jacob
Grimm, Wilhelm
Grote, George
Hardy, Thomas
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Headlam, Walter George
Hobhouse, Leonard T.
Hunt, Leigh
Jannaris, Antonius N.
Kipling, Rudyard
Le Gallienne, Richard
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lowell, James Russell
Mahaffy, John Pentland
Manzoni, Alessandro F. T. A.
Merivale, Charles
Milton, John
Mommsen, Theodor
Moore, Thomas
Morley, John
Morris, William
Murray, George Gilbert Aimé
Noel-Buxton, Noel Edward
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allan
Robertson, William
Roscoe, William
Scott, Walter
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Tennyson, Alfred
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thomson, James
Tucker, Thomas George
Virgil
Vizetelly, Edward
Voltaire
Wilde, Oscar
Wilson, Joseph
CORPORATE BODIES:
Chatto & Windus (editions)
Clarendon Press
Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd
George Bell & Sons (editions)
James Duffy (editions)
John Murray
MacMillan & Co. (editions)
Nelson & Sons (editions)
Routledge (editions)
Tauchnitz Editions
William Heinemann (editions)

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Unknown. “List of books”. List, n.d.. GR-OF CA SING-S01-F03-SF002-0014 (1370), Onassis Foundation Alekos & Rica Singopoulo Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/SING-S01-F03-SF002-0014.

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