BIB_ID
195253
Accession number
MA 4721
Creator
Watson-Taylor, George, -1841.
Display Date
[ca. 1801].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (5 p.), bound : ill. ; 22.1 cm
Notes
Preceded by an autograph attestation signed by Watson Taylor, dated July 1817, explaining that Joseph Jekyll sent him the manuscript, which he had bound with the printed poem.
The manuscript was evidently sent to Joseph Jekyll by the unknown copyist; on the verso of p. 5 is an address panel, with postmark, addressed to "J. Jekyll Esqre M.P., Bridgewater, on the Western Circuit, Somerset." Docketed "Old Woman in red Cloak."
The poem is a parody of Matthew Lewis's Tales of wonder, which was first published in 1802. In the preface to a later edition of The old hag in the red cloak, Watson-Taylor notes that the parody was penned "long before the work upon which they are founded was presented to the Public, and were circulated with it, in manuscript, among the very few friends for whose amusement they were originally composed."
The manuscript was evidently sent to Joseph Jekyll by the unknown copyist; on the verso of p. 5 is an address panel, with postmark, addressed to "J. Jekyll Esqre M.P., Bridgewater, on the Western Circuit, Somerset." Docketed "Old Woman in red Cloak."
The poem is a parody of Matthew Lewis's Tales of wonder, which was first published in 1802. In the preface to a later edition of The old hag in the red cloak, Watson-Taylor notes that the parody was penned "long before the work upon which they are founded was presented to the Public, and were circulated with it, in manuscript, among the very few friends for whose amusement they were originally composed."
Provenance
Sent by the unknown copyist to Joseph Jekyll; given by Jekyll to George Watson-Taylor; purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Summary
A manuscript of the poem in an unidentified hand, with two pen-and-ink illustrations.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (25.7 cm)
Catalog link
Department