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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![imprimées a Paris, tant de la grande Bretaigne, depuis le Roy Brutus qui la Conquist . . . jusques au temps de Cadualadrus,. &e. numerous fine full-page woodcuts (title im facsimile), original stamped calf Paris, 1514 A tall copy of the excessively rare FIRST EDITION. The large: woodcut of St. Ives occupying a full page, the reverse blank is given in facsimile from one of the only 2 copies known to possess it. From the library of William Morris, with his. “‘ Kelmscott House ” ex-libris. of the Coronation of their most excellent Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, solemnized in the Abbey Church of Westminster, Ninth of August, 1902, numerous large and finely executed plates, several of which are im colours, half crimson morocco gilt, t. e.g. prwately printed, 1904 * % * 1820, to R. B. Hoppner, English Consul-General at Vienna. He speaks as to the removal of the furniture from the rooms which Byron fitted up for bis daughter in Bologna in the summer, to Ravenna : Scrat If Scott is returned pray remember me to him, plead laziness, the whole and sole cause of my not replying; dreadful is the exaction of letter-writing. What you say of Mrs. Prescott, and her Sclavonian marriage does not surprize me, it is a match of your making...... it is the very essence of human nature to act thus; but I think I see your face upon the occasion, which would interest me a greal deal more than anything of the Venetian Carnival. The Carnival here is less boisterous, but we have balls and a theatre, I carried Bankes to both, and he carried away, I believe, a much more favourable impression of the Society here,. than of that of Venice, recollect that I speak of the native Society only. I am drilling very hard to learn how to double a shawl, and should succeed to admiration, if I did not always double it the wrong side out fa et [Speaks of an odd ceremony, a lottery, to take place to-night after the Opera. Bankes has gone to Firenze.] Mrs Tainbelli should have sent you my postscript...... I never interfere in anybody’s squabbles,. she may scratch your face herself. The weather here has been dreadful. Snow several feet, fiwme broke down a bridge, and flooded, Heaven knows how many Campi; then rain came, and it is still thawing,. so that my saddle horses have a sinecure till the roads become more practicable. Why did Lega give away the goat? a blockhead, I must have him again...... I heard from Moore, who is at Paris, I had pre- viously written to London to him, but he has not yet got my letter apparently. Have you Clawed Edgecombe? If you see him, tell him that: if he and I foregather again, I shall have to say that which he will remember for some time, etc. A splendid letter of great length. The reference to his friend Tom Moore, the famous Irish poet, makes this fine letter additionally interesting. - tant Collection of Autograph Letters, many of which are signed, of Queen Caroline; also an Autograph Letter of George IV, when Prince of Wales, an Autograph Letter of Dr. Denman, who attended the Queen at the time of her accouchment with tho Princess Charlotte, relative to the condition of the Queen,,.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31665330_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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