Accession number
PML 253671
Published
[England?] : [publisher not identified], [1800s?]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Cover title.
Blank book shaped like a cross.
Blank book shaped like a cross.
Description
74 unnumbered pages ; 82 x 61 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in ink on page [1]: "1837 May 15. This little book given by Mrs Smith to Mrs Shohe[?] Lefever[?]. Having belonged to her daughter Augusta Wilcher[?]"; inscription in ink on page [72]: "Give me the thing that's pretty odd and new. All ugly, old, odd things, I leave to you"; inscription in ink on page [74]: "Sorrow. Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. Richard III. G.[?] Compton. June 22, 1828."
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Green leather tooled in gold with 2 gold clasps, gilded edges, silk endpapers.
Classification
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