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

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Voynich and Edgell are referred to as "W.M. Voynich & C.A. Edgell, M.A." on 
the cover page of the "First List of Books".

Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Pelling" <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: Cat-and-mouse (continued)...


> Hi Jean-Yves,
>
> At 20:27 04/08/2004 +0200, you wrote:
> >Anyway, here are to answer Nick especially a couple of "new"(?) facts:
> >
> >The first one is not that new in fact I am afraid, and is more perhaps a
> >detailed confirmation of what someone else in the mist ( sorry in the
> >list: :-) ) - wasn't it Dana?-, already stated:
> >
> >I read this on the "first list of books" ( "offered by VMW" ), second
> >edition, May 1902:
> >
> >"Telegraphic address: Sessa, London. Code: Unicode".
>
> Thanks - I'll update my cat-and-mouse page with this later, no problem...
>
> Still, it's nice to know that Unicode is over 100 years old - so much for
> flash-in-the-pan web standards, eh? :-)
>
> >The second and last one for today is that on the "second list of books"
> >("offered" etc), 1900, VMW as an introduction to the list states:
> >
> >"Shortly after the issue of our first list, my friend Myster ( sorry:
> >Mister ) Edgell ( RPT Edgell ), with whom I had worked for some time, was
> >obliged, for family reasons, to leave London. Our partnership was,
> >therefore, dissolved, much to my regret".
>
> Googling for Voynich and Edgell brings up Xavier Ceccaldi's page on
> catalogue 24:-
>          http://www.geocities.com/voyms/cat24.htm
>
> Has anyone else read anything concerning Mr Edgell? Are "RPT" his 
> initials?
> Does WMV mention him anywhere? Do Kennedy and Churchill? :-0
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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