Day: December 4, 2013

Front facade of Houghton Library

The Enduring Classical Tradition II

A second recent acquisition which reflects the theme of the Enduring Classical Tradition is Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen’s Verses Written in the Portico of the Temple of Liberty at Woburn Abbey, on the Placing before it the Statues of Locke and Erskine, in the summer of 1835.  London: James Moyes, 1836.  According to the colophon in the…