This Week's Acquisitions

• H. H.  Milman, The Martyr of Antioch: A Dramatic  Poem (John Murray, 1823).  A new edition of Milman's closet drama, in a uniform binding with the poem below.  These two volumes belonged to clergyman and poetaster John Lea Simcox, who died in July 1840 at the age of 26; they were taken as a memorial by a friend, Laura Price, from Birmingham.  (eBay)
• ---, The Fall of Jerusalem: A Dramatic Poem (John Murray, 1825).  Another new edition.  Milman, of course, is now much better known as an ecclesiastical historian, but he got his start as a bestselling poet.  (eBay)
• Margaret Elphinstone, Voyageurs (Canongate, 2005).  In the early nineteenth century, a man treks into Canada, looking for his lost sister.  (eBay)
• Warwick Gould and Marjorie Reeves, Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford, 2002).  Afterlife of the 12th-c. mystic Joachim de Fiore and his influence on prophetic interpretation, etc.  (Oxford)
• Robert C. Fuller, Naming the Antichrist: A History of an American Obsession (Oxford, 1996).  Apocalyptics, US-style.  (eBay)
• John Demos, The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World (Viking, 2008).  Synthetic work by a well-known specialist in colonial American history.  (BOMC)
• Kathryn Shevelow, For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement (Holt, 2008).  Roots of animal protection in eighteenth-century England.  (HBC)