Ending 13th Nov, 2024 20:00
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED
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CIRCA 1800 MANUSCRIPT COMMONPLACE BOOK OF VERSES, TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS ETC
An early 19th century circa 1800 - 1810 handwritten manuscript commonplace book. The writer unnamed, various hands towards the end of the work. Including notes, poems and extracts including Elegy written amongst the ruins of Pontefract Castle,from a Sermon on the Peace by the Rev. H. Crofts preached at Prittlewell Oct 18th 1801, The Hill of Heroes, Man was made to Mourn, a Dirge by Burns, Desultory Thoughts on Education by Dryden, Mr. Cumberland's Prayer, The Revenge of America by Dr. J. Warton, The Kalendar of Flora, The Female Pleasure of More Modest Kind, Contentment - a Sonnet by Lady Manners, On Lord Nelson's Victory by W. T. Fitzgerald Esq., World Anxiety Reproved, St. Michael's Mount a Poem by Rev. W. L. Bowles, The Contemplatist - a Night Piece, An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins on Boslin Abbey, and others by Barbauld, Blair, Jago, Miss. Flora Macdonald, Leyden, Cunningham, Ossian etc. Some copied from the European Magazine, the Gentleman's Magazine & similar. Contemp. quarter calf binding with paper covered boards, front joint worn & with some loss resulting in the spine lifting slightly at the tail, extremities bumped and some light loss and rubbing to the paper. Internally pages generally clean with the odd spot or mark; binding sometimes loosening slightly. Late 20th c. Phillips auction label inserted, lot 270 sale no. 1025. Small 4to.
Sold for £55
Auction: BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED, ending 13th Nov, 2024
Our final specialist Books & Works on Paper sale of the year includes a remarkable fourth edition of Paradise Lost from the library of Master of Revels Charles Killigrew, a beautiful mid 19th century collection of pressed seaweed, an exceptionally scarce first edition of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, and beyond that an impressive, smart and diverse collection of modern first editions, antiquarian titles, ephemera, and a specialist map section.
We invite & look forward to welcoming interested bidders to view on Wednesday 13th November from 10am until 5pm, ahead of the sale finishing from 8pm on the 13th.
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