Re: VMs: Cat-and-mouse (continued)...

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Yves,

At 22:06 02/08/2004 +0200, Jean-Yves Artero wrote:
> I am certainly not trying to convince anybody that this topic is 
> essential, but I simply think that WMV s character on the contrary is very 
> very important in this story.
>
> For instance I read somewhere he was from POL/LIT nobility. Why did he 
> choose the above to present himself as a bookdealer, at some stage of course?

When he came to London (from Siberia, via China), he found work with a 
group of Russian emigres selling books: from there, possibly only a chance 
encounter or comment would be necessary to set him on his way as an 
antiquarian bookseller - though the issue of from where he got his initial 
stock is another matter.

> Here is an excerpt of VMW s third list of books in 1901( FWIW: price half 
> a crown - in 1901 ):
>
> page 318, reference 1227:
>
> "L'Amoroso Convivio di Dante, Impresso in Venegia per Marchio Sessa nell' 
> anno MDXXXI. The Sessa mark (cat and mouse) appears twice: in border of 
> title and in an other form on last leaf...".

What would the correct reference for WMV's 1901 list of books be? Would it 
be "Catalogue 3", or would that be somewhat premature?

> Nick I am really ( I have to emphasize this I imagine ;-) ) really really 
> sorry about this new chapter.

Don't worry: while it's not exactly central to my own research, it is 
certainly an interesting matter in its own right, so I don't mind updating 
the page once in a while. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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