Sir Thomas Phillipps’ Swiss manuscripts

Sir Thomas Phillipps’ Swiss manuscripts

As part of our exploration of the manuscripts owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Dr Angéline Rais examines the fate of the Swiss manuscripts owned by Phillipps. Although Sir Thomas Phillipps spent a year in Switzerland in 1822–23 and purchased there more than 250...
The return of Sir Thomas Phillipps’ Italian manuscripts to Italy

Where have all the Phillipps manuscripts gone?

Continuing our exploration of Sir Thomas Phillipps’ remarkable manuscript collection, Toby Burrows (University of Oxford; University of Western Australia) examines the fate of the collection – @TobyBurrows The vast manuscript collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps...
Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett’s legacy George Cruikshank, Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith, in a Series of Forty-One Plates (London: C. Tilt. 1832), [S.L.] IV [Cruikshank, G. – 1832] The prolific Regency and Victorian caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank...