BIB_ID
79927
Accession number
MA 1547
Creator
Bray, Mrs. (Anna Eliza), 1790-1883.
Display Date
1826 March 23.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "George Cooke, Esq're / Loddiges's Buildings / Hackney."
Written from "4 Rodney Buildings / New Kent Road / Surrey."
George Cooke was an engraver who worked on botanical engravings between 1817-1833 in partnership with Loddiges of Hackney.
Anna Bray's first husband was Charles Alfred Stothard, an artist, who was working on a book of illustrations of the great monumental effigies of Great Britain when he died in 1821. Anna Bray would complete the book, parts of which had been previously issued, and working with several engravers she published the completed book in 1832.
The complete title of Anna Bray's novel is "De Foix: or Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Fourteenth Century. An Historical Romance", published by Longman in London in 1826.
Anna Bray's second husband was Edward Atkyns Bray (1778-1857), the Vicar of Tavistock.
Written from "4 Rodney Buildings / New Kent Road / Surrey."
George Cooke was an engraver who worked on botanical engravings between 1817-1833 in partnership with Loddiges of Hackney.
Anna Bray's first husband was Charles Alfred Stothard, an artist, who was working on a book of illustrations of the great monumental effigies of Great Britain when he died in 1821. Anna Bray would complete the book, parts of which had been previously issued, and working with several engravers she published the completed book in 1832.
The complete title of Anna Bray's novel is "De Foix: or Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Fourteenth Century. An Historical Romance", published by Longman in London in 1826.
Anna Bray's second husband was Edward Atkyns Bray (1778-1857), the Vicar of Tavistock.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1954.
Summary
Concerning her most recent work, "De Foix or Sketches of the Manners and customs of the 14th Century"; informing him of the new publication, published only a few days previous by Longman; saying "I have no wish that my friends should purchase "De Foix" but if any of them had the opportunity to recommend it, to a book club, or to order it for a Library, I should be very much obliged to them, and they wont do me a service for I do not hesitate saying I am doubly anxious for the success of "De Foix" as the work of the Monumental Effigies has been so very expensive to me in order to carry it on in the manner commenced by its lamented author and I may tell you between friends that should "De Foix" meet with a tolerably good sale I have every reason to believe Messrs. Longman will hereafter assist me in the most desirable manner - I know therefore if you can serve me by recommending it in your connexion you will do so - Should you honor my new attempt with a perusal I flatter myself you will not find it wholly [illegible] your notice, since its composition has cost me much labour and research in our ancient chronicles and writers of the period, in order that I might be enabled to give a faithful picture of the times from which I have selected my subject: sending him regards from her mother and inviting him and Mrs. Cooke to dinner with them in Rodney Buildings at which time she might show him "...poor Charles's drawings, should any be useful for your exhibition you shall be most welcome to the loan of them;" adding, in a postscript, that Mr. Bray will arrive shortly in London and she hopes to introduce them to one another.
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