Cover oriented horizontally; contents oriented vertically., Hand-colored lithographs showing persons in national costumes, one for each letter of the alphabet., Imperfect: back cover wanting; some leaves stitched together. Hand-colored illustrations., Sheet made of six sheets glued together horizontally and folded, accordion-style, to make 26 leaves; verso of leaf 1affixed to p. [2] of cover., The firm of D.W. Kellogg & Co. was in business from 1830 to 1842., and Title from printed label pasted to cover.
Fourteen lines of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Hungry and cold, unshelter'd with a cloak, A solitary wretch, these shores I roam ..., Header to broadside continues: By Jacob Quirk, a modern sonnetteer. A soliloquy., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title from letterpress header to broadside printed below image.
Publisher:
Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Quirk, Jacob. Alphonso., and Walker, Elizabeth, active 1789-1817, publisher.
Title from letterpress header to broadside printed below image., Header to broadside continues: By Jacob Quirk, a modern sonnetteer. A soliloquy., Fourteen lines of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Hungry and cold, unshelter'd with a cloak, A solitary wretch, these shores I roam ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Ruse & Turners., and Countermark: 1805.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1820 Sep 27
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 245
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 12 x 18 cm. Autograph poem, signed: Goethe First printed in Ost und West, Prag, 1837; later in Weimar Ausgabe with title: An Friedrich Förster; also in Förster's posthumous papers, with title: Drei Begegnungen. With an explanatory autograph note by Förster.