Binding: full calf; gilt decoration. Remains of metal clasps.
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676--Poetry and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Enigmas, Epigrams, English, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
Autograph manuscript of a collection of about 250 primarily light, satirical, or amatory English poems by various authors. In addition to twelve poems by Robert Herrick, primarily on love, the manuscript also contains poems by Thomas Carew, John Donne...
Description:
Disbound and separated into 21 folders.
Subject (Name):
Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639, Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628, Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?, Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, Harington, John, 1589-1654, Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, University of Cambridge--Poetry, and Wither, George, 1588-1667
Subject (Topic):
Bawdy poetry--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Latin poetry, Love--Poetry, Political satire, English--17th century, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of fifteen 18th-century satirical poems, epigrams, and epitaphs. The poems are primarily political and satirize the royal family and the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford. The volume inclu...
Description:
Binding: panelled speckled calf; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714, and Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1760
Subject (Name):
Caroline,--Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain,--1683-1737, George--II,--King of Great Britain,--1683-1760, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Marlborough, John Churchill,--Duke of,--1650-1722, and Walpole, Robert,--Earl of Orford,--1676-1745
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--18th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Political poetry, English, and Verse satire, English
