Accession number
PML 48176
Creator
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806.
Published
[S.l. : Privately printed, ca. 1800]
Credit line
Purchased in 1956.
Notes
Letter from Francis Thompson concerning authenticity.
The privately printed first ed.
ESTC dates this private publication as 1798? The poem was written when the duchess was travelling in Switzerland during her exile (Nov. 3--Sept. 18,1793). A parody of it was published in the Dec. 24, 1799 issue of The Morning Chronicle.
The privately printed first ed.
ESTC dates this private publication as 1798? The poem was written when the duchess was travelling in Switzerland during her exile (Nov. 3--Sept. 18,1793). A parody of it was published in the Dec. 24, 1799 issue of The Morning Chronicle.
Description
[1], 19 p. ; 30 cm
Provenance
From the Chatsworth collection.
Binding
Blue morocco, gilt, with oval in upper cover that formerly contained an ivory portrait of the duchess.
Classification
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