Sales catalogue 536: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/91
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 536: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1394 and mentions his ‘‘ English Garden.’’ Also refers to the publication of a post- humous volume of Whitehead’s poems. My expectations concerning the profits are by no means sanguine, I know the caprice of the public too well to draw any favorable consequences from the hitherto rapid sale. I look on the whole as a matter of Chance in wch. I am no further interested, than I told you before I was, therefore if at the long run I do not clear 700 pounds, il (shall not be disappointed. But as there is a chance that it may produce more I do not think it proper to give up that chance for the sake of those who may hereafter be benefitted by it in the space of 14 years, or 28 if I survive the first 14.”’ “T shall be obliged to you . . . to tell me also when you think it will be necessary to put the Memoirs &c. to the press; The specimen wch. you sent me I approve of entirely both with regard to paper & print, but I have not yet fixt about the new Etching.’’ Etc. “¢ My Printer will send off the impression of the fourth Book of the E. Garden tomorrow by the York Carrier wch. I suppose you will receive in little more than a week. You will advertise & publish when you think proper.” Etc. ‘‘T have just put in to the Press here a third Volume of Mr. Whitehead’s poems wch. will include the three poems he printed after his Collection in two Volumes & some original Pieces to wch. I mean to add Memoirs of his Life & Writing.”? Etc. ‘‘T forebore to answer your last Letter till I had prepared my Memoirs of Mr. Whitehead for publication, with wch. are also to be published, Variety, the Goat Beard Venus attiring the Graces, His Dissertation on the shield of Oneas (all wch. have been already printed separately) & one or two Poems from his MSS. weh. altogether will form a third Volume of about the same size with the two wch. he himself publish in 1774. But as General Stephens, Mr. Whithead’s executor to whom the profits of this publication will of right belong (if any accrue) is offended & I think justly with the manner in weh, you have treated his friends memory by complaining of the Loss you sustained from that Publication, tho surely on the whole a considerable gainer by his writings, he has expressed to me his disapprobation of your being the Publisher, & as for myself I have now an additional reason for agreeing with him in that sentiment since I find by your last that you have given up your shop & retain only your Warehouse.’ Hite. AvutocrapH Manuscript SiGNED of a Sonnet addressed “‘’To the Right Reverend the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and Pre- ceptor to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Bishop of Osnaburg.” Consisting of 14 lines on 1 page, 8vo. Aston, 12th November, 1776. £2035 An interesting sonnet addressed to Dr. Richard Hurd, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry who was consecrated 12th February, 1775, and appointed Preceptor to the Prince of Wales and Duke of York, in 1776. ‘¢ Still let my Hurd a smile of candour lend To scenes, that dazed on Grecien pennons tower, When, in low Thurceston’s sequester’d bower, He praised the strain because he loved the friend There golden Leisure did his steps attend.’’? Etc.
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