Description | Small album containing examples of classical, renaissance and contemporary poetry, indexed st the front. With a manuscript title page "Beauties of all the Poets / London 1776". Two inscriptions on the front pastedown in different hands. The first reads "Ex dono infelicis patris Anno Domini 1803". The second is "The writing of my dear Mother p.3 to 12, p.24 to 26, p.111 to 116, p.129 to 132, + p.153 to the end. / Jos. Romilly". Catalogued by St Clair as "Romilly". |