Sales catalogue 464: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/35
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 464: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the House of Commons and Outlawed. Lord Mayor of London. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THOMAS EDWARDS, THE CRITIC, WHO ATTACKED WARBURTON’S EDITION OF SHAKE- SPEARE. | 31 pp., gto. N.D. Circa 1749. With fine wax seal. - £3 3s A particularly charming letter envying the pleasures of a country life enjoyed by his correspondent in Bucks; also on literary and dramatic matters. He I am doom’d to the infernal din of the sons of riot; and in their zenith, too, between Newgate and Smithfield. . . . You may now perhaps be planning - some happy poem or sonetti, to immortalize your friends, and rival Milton. .-. 2 Or,you maybe indulging yourself in all the innocent diversions of the country . . . laughing with your tenants in the jovial hall while rustic mirth goes round. The simple joke that takes the shepherd’s heart. Easily pleas’d the long loud laugh sincere. The kiss snatch’d hasty from the sidelong maid on purpose , guardless or pretending sleep. . The Sonetti I hear are already published in the new edition of the miscellanies, but the separate volume for the purchasers of the first edition is not yet out. The Foundling, Fielding’s new romance in the manner of Joseph Andrews, we shall have next week, Coriolanus and Mahomet and Irene will be acted some time this month.’ Etc., etc. OF IRISH INTEREST. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10 LORD MELBOURNE. 14 pp., 8vo. Windsor Castle, 12th April, 1836. £1 10s An angry letter concerning the wanton destruction of the statue of King William III. in Dublin; and giving instructions that the Lord Lieut. should have ‘““the necessary documents collected by the Irish Government respecting what H. M. must consider a flagrant and gross breach of the King’s Peace.’ AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, WHEN DUKE OF CLARENCE, TO SIR, THOMAS - USHER ADMIRAL). 24 ppl; 4to:. St. “Vames, Toth Decempes, 91.620. £1 10s Interesting letter, announcing the birth of a daughter (who died in infancy); mentioning the marriage of his daughter (by Mrs. Jordan) Elizabeth.
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