#(also: note the bits of English and Italian here! he quotes Moore in the original!)

[shimyereh]

Cool typography sighting: this ligature for “NB” (nota bene).

Spotted in the physical copy of Pushkin’s Journey to Erzurum that I’m reading, in a Collected Works from the 1970s.

#pushkin #journey to erzurum during the campaign of 1829 #typographical flourishes #(also: note the bits of English and Italian here! he quotes Moore in the original!) #I'm currently doing a closer read of 'Erzurum' #to fill in some gaps in my understanding of the timeline for summer of 1829 #(there's so little that survives of Pushkin's correspondence from that year)