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Emotional return for one of the Guille-Allès Library’s oldest books

Dutch librarian Garrelt Verhoeven was browsing an online antiquarian bookshop when he came across a copy of The Destruction of Jerusalem, written in 1805 by the British MP George Holford. He bought the book, discovered the words ‘Thomas Guille, 1832, New York’ written on the flyleaf – and became intrigued to find out more about […]

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