Manuscript on paper containing "The constant desperado"; "The force of custome"; "The generous lovers"; "The maids revenge"; and "The Disloyal Wife". With "An address to the Reader" and a dedicatory letter to Dorothy Osborne.
Description:
Disbound but in original gatherings. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Topic):
English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700 and Love stories, English
This manuscript, a contemporary scribal copy of the work, is not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum Edition of Spenser's Prose Works. Textually, it stands between D2 (Cambridge University Library) and F (Folger Shakespeare Library), and most probably was the manuscript from which F was copied.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Henry St. George (1581-1644), Garter King of Arms, and was acquired with the St. George Manuscripts in 1852 by Sir Thomas Phillipps. and Dibound copy in hands of six scribes, all with similar cursive scripts.
Manuscript concludes with a table of contents, "A poem in fashion after my late lord's decease" that begins, "As I walkd by my self, Thus I saide to my self....;" and a letter to the young Earl Fitzwilliam signed, "John Catlin, Living in Stepney, Northamptonshire.", Manuscript presentation copy of a work addressed to the young Earl Fitzwilliam, offering "my opinion on Gods workes, with some proper rules... [for] health, long life, ritches, virtue, wisdom, viygor and victory." The text opens with a generalized cosmology, including discussion of the nature of light and of the Zodiac, and mentioning the meteor fireball of March 1719. Most of the text offers detailed information on the four humours; on "the rules of Health", "Physicke and ointment;" the "Limmits of Pleasure;" and rules "To govern Servants.", Prefatory material: Five varying and highly decorated dedication pages to Lord Fitzwilliam, including a dedicatory poem "Not that I think my Lord will want to learn....;" several English and Latin maxims, and a dedicatory letter addressed to "My Lord.", and With: foldout diagram on parchment of signs of the Zodiac (numbered as p. 22).
Description:
Binding: contemporary full panelled calf., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Paginated as rectos only. Most versos blank, not digitized, excepting p. 21-22..
Subject (Name):
Fitzwilliam, William Fitzwilliam,--Earl,--1719-1756
Subject (Topic):
Astrology and health, Authors and patrons--Great Britain, Conduct of life, Cosmology, English poetry--18th century, Health, Moral education, Youth--Conduct of life, and Youth--Health and hygiene
Soho Square, London 1 p.;23 x 18 cm. Agrees to plead the cause of the sister of Captain James Cook (1728-1779) and discusses Capt. Cook's widow. "Banks Letters," p. 722. fd.10/24
Marlborough House 2 p.; 18 x 14 cm. Sends a portrait drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) of her husband, George Spencer, 4th duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), and asks that Humphrey complete, and correct, the painted portrait from the drawing (presumably due to Gainsborough's death). d 194/35
Autograph letter to his son detailing his approval of and pleasure in Fanny Burney's novel Camilla. Burney judges it to contain "better writing & deeper thinking than in either of her former novels" and praises it as "the best & most impressive system of female education I have ever seen." Also discusses a variety of Classical topics and sends family news.
Description:
Accompanied by: typed description on the stationery of James F. Drake, Inc. and Binding: 20th century full yellow morocco, gilt-stamped; watered yellow silk endpapers; cloth slipcase.
Subject (Name):
Burney family., Burney, Charles,--1757-1817., and Burney, Fanny,--1752-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Women authors, English--18th century. and Women--Intellectual life.
Cork. 1 p.; 33 x 22 cm. "Noble Cousin, Wee are now brought to the last Pynche of beinge able to subsist..." A plea for supplies for the troops around Cork. folder 6.