| Description | Commonplace album with at least two owners used several years apart. Inscribed "M A Roberts, West Grove" and "Mrs Thornton Littlewood" on the front free endpaper. Annotated by William St Clair on the front pastedown in 1989, Preston, "Begins Jan 1831. Bilton Vicarage. Reply by Byron, 'Fare Thee Well'. Childe Harold 'A blending of all beauties'. Poem, probably original by J Metcalfe 1852 'Byron is dead'. Views of Isle of Man etc ? early photographs."
Begins in 1831 with various poems, particularly on love and friendship, most signed and dated or initialled. Some likely original, others copies.
Various artworks, including pencil drawings of castles and coloured drawings of a bird and a butterfly. Engravings pasted in, including views of gothic buildings and views of Scarborough.
Gaps where several pasted-in illustrations have fallen out.
Paper watermarked 1828. |