Lot 146
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Blore, Margaret [Margaret Keyser] - Unpublished manuscript novel
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 6 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
Manuscript novel: The Adventures of Dido Queen of Carthage, in two vols., 1804, 2 volumes in one, 4to, 214 + 198pp., contemporary diced calf, binding worn.
Footnote
Provenance: Charles Keyser , bookplate. Charles Keyser lived at Warren House, Stanmore and married Margaret Blore, daughter of Edward Blore (1787-1879), British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary.
Note: In her preface the authoress states "I have endeavoured to prove that a refined love is not incompatible with the higher duties of life; I have endeavoured to free my heroine from those puerile feelings the attendant of little minds, and have shewn that a virtuous passion can be exalted to an intellectual sentiment".