1- ANTI SLAVERY Manuscript
1- ANTI SLAVERY Manuscript: A late 18th to early 19th century manuscript volume with over 200 hand-written pages, some original works and some copies of poems etc. including a three page poem, entitled: 'On Negro Slavery'; It start 'Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more my ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report, Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled,...' Contemporary full leather gilt, with later spine. 2- Robinson, Margaret E, Clitheroe Castle: A 28 page manuscript autograph book, 1878-1879; 3- Visiting/ Address Book Manuscript, filled with names and addresses and some visiting cards (pasted in), of various Lords, Ladies and others including: Keppel, Lytton, Stanhope, Sassoon, Du-Cann, Horace Walpole, etc., 1895-96. Original full leather binding; 4- Dow, Countess: Visiting/Address Book Manuscript, filled with names and addresses of European Royalty, Ambassadors, etc. mainly in: The Hague, Paris and Frankfurt. 1831-1850. Bound in the original half leather (4)
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1- ANTI SLAVERY Manuscript: A late 18th to early 19th century manuscript volume with over 200 hand-written pages, some original works and some copies of poems etc. including a three page poem, entitled: 'On Negro Slavery'; It start 'Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more my ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report, Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled,...' Contemporary full leather gilt, with later spine. 2- Robinson, Margaret E, Clitheroe Castle: A 28 page manuscript autograph book, 1878-1879; 3- Visiting/ Address Book Manuscript, filled with names and addresses and some visiting cards (pasted in), of various Lords, Ladies and others including: Keppel, Lytton, Stanhope, Sassoon, Du-Cann, Horace Walpole, etc., 1895-96. Original full leather binding; 4- Dow, Countess: Visiting/Address Book Manuscript, filled with names and addresses of European Royalty, Ambassadors, etc. mainly in: The Hague, Paris and Frankfurt. 1831-1850. Bound in the original half leather (4)
Sold for £320
