Sales catalogue 551: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/98
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 551: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1957a DARWIN (MISS E.). Daughter of Erasmus Darwin, the famous Physician and Poet. AUTOGRAPH “LETTER “SIGNED -TO:“HER “HALF-SISTER, MILLICEN TT WikE OF. JOHN GISBORNE, THE POET. 4pp.,4to. The Priory, 22nd April, 1815. With coloured sketch intext, £2 2s A humorous letter which she illustrates with a clever sketch of herself im might attire. ‘‘ Your letter was delivered to me at 7 this morng, & I never was more thunder-struck in my hfe than with the sentence ‘ Your new friends have made you forget your sister.’ I jumped out of bed and paced the room, my face the colour of a Turkey cock & my night-shift sticking out like a Turkey-cock’s Tail. (Sketen). oy jaye ‘‘ You must be certain Madam, that if I could visit them in a Typhus fever, I would nurse you in the Plague, & yet you have the effrontery to insinuate that I would do more for them than for you, & you of all my sisters to complain! Oh fyve, Millicent, fye! Nothing will appease me but a handsome apology, & pray don’t tell me that my picture made you laugh, for I fully intend you shd. weep over it.”’ Etc., ete. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO SIR FRANCIS FREELING. 25 pp., 4to. ~ieth March, 1814. £2 15s An interesting letter referring to his book ‘‘ Bibliotheca Spencer- 1958a ‘“ Herewith you receive the first two Volumes of your B.S. upon Sarge Paper with the portrait of the Noble Owner of the Library upon India Paper! For fear the 3 Volumes, together, should kill you by the intensity of their lustre, I send the first 2 as qualifiers and coolers, of your bibliomaniacal ardor. ‘They are pretty creatures, I must own; tho’ it is a little barefaced for a Father thus to puff his progeny! ‘“The IIIrd vol. more prettier than its precursors will, I trust, reach you within 3 weeks. All is printed—but we wait for a few sunny skies (what weather !) to expedite the drying—and then for pressing, stitching, boarding, &c., &c. I shall send the 3rd vol. S.P. along with the L.P. Then Henry’s copy will be complete.’’ Ete. DIBDIN (THOMAS F.). NU TOGRAPE LETTER, SIGNED TO, THE SAME. appa over Veracan daly, Tar. £1 10s apt Play I waited to give you some intelligence about the reprint of the Caxtonian leaves in the Life of Christ. ‘‘T am contriving a new plan for this reprint, which I will cormmunicate when matured; and for which I expect to have a patent. . . . ; ‘¢ May I venture to apply to you for the promise of fillmg up a vacancy in that department of your multifarious office, connected with Jockeyship ; not that I mean to jockey you out of it! ‘‘T have had a lad for some years, who is trusty, punctual, and alert—and a very Mercury on horsehack.’’ Ete.
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