Accession number
PML 127694
Creator
Milnes, Charlotte, active 1796, illustrator.
Published
London : Published Jany. 1st, 1796, by A.C. de Poggi, 1796.
Notes
The title and statement of responsibility are in letterpress, within an engraved ornamental border and engraved imprint at foot; the subsequent leaves consist of four leaves of letterpress verse and four leaves of hand coloured plates, all of which are within engraved ornamental borders and the engraved imprint repeated at foot.
This issue has the date of May 1, 1795, in the letterpress t.p.; engravings are dated Jan. 1, 1796.
The four engravings are hand-colored.
This issue has the date of May 1, 1795, in the letterpress t.p.; engravings are dated Jan. 1, 1796.
The four engravings are hand-colored.
Description
[5] leaves, [4] plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 16 cm (oblong 8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Pencil drawing of a landscape (rear endleaves 1v-2r).
Provenance
J. Hawkins Witshed to Sophia Parnell, gift inscription: "Sophia Parnell a present from J. Hawkins Witshed, Esq. Four Engravings of Sophy Witshed and Henry Milnes. London, November twelfth 1797," perhaps James Hawkins Whitshed (1762-1849), Hawkins Whitshed family with connections to Milnes family (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Ursus Rare Books, 1995.
Binding
18th-century English straight-grained red morocco, with blue paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Classification
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