"Bibliomania.".

  • Brown, John Taylor, 1811-1901.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: "Bibliomania.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Mai'ginalia—Horace Walpole. ^i Magdalen, daughter of George Pillesary, Treas. Gen. of the Marine to Louis xiv. Besides Lady Luxborough, she had a son, Hollis St. John, a famous mimic and buffoon. He once dressed himself in his mother's cloaths, in London, and went into a balcony over the street, pretending to be drunk, and danced with a punch-bowl on his head, the mob taking him for Lady St. John. At p. 217, on an allusion to Mr. Meredith, Walpole writes:— This Mr. Meredith, afterwards Sir William, was originally a Jacobite, then a great Whig, and patron of the Presbyterians ; and then grew a courtier, and was made Comp- troller of the House by the Tory Ministry in 1775. At p. 325, Lady Luxborough speaks of her spirits being depressed by her daughter's imprudence (to call it by no worse a name). Walpole explains that this refers to her daughter, Henrietta; adding, She was divorced from Mr. Wymondesell for an intrigue with Josiah Child, brother of the Earl of Tilney, and married him after her divorce. At p. 334, Lady Luxborough says :— I find your beauty, Lady Diana Egerton, is married, but not to the lover that I saw her with the last season that I was at Bath ; upon which Walpole notes that Lady Diana was youngest daughter of Scrope, Duke of Bridgewater; that she married Frederick Calvert, Lord Baltimore; and that 'the lover' was Henry Seymour, etc. etc. One other example of the curious value and interest often attachable to books, in consequence of their association with some previous possessor, we must give from the Memoires d'un Bibliophile, par M. Tenant de Latour, Paris, 1861. One day M. de Latour picked up at a stall in Paris a copy of Thomas A'Kempis' De Imitatione Christi, with the autograph of Jean Jacques Kousseau on the title-page. It contained