Review: Dorothea Tanning, Alison Jacques Gallery
Robert Barry, The Quietus
September 2016
In the spring of 1921, a Polish rare book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich delivered a lecture to the Philadelphia College of Physicians in which he discussed for the first time in public a manuscript he claimed to have discovered nine years earlier amongst a collection purchased from the executors of a castle in southern Europe. Though no bigger than a paperback Penguin Classic and only 234 pages long, the book – which has come to be known after its finder as the Voynich Manuscript – has since grown into one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. […]