Rare Oxfordshire poetry
Original Rhymes by T. S. Allen
£555
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Bampton: printed and sold for the author, by W. Holloway and Sons, 1826. First and only edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the initial blank, 8vo (17.2 x 11cm), contemporary blue straight-grain calf gilt, [4] ii [2] 78 [2] pp., p. 62 with additional autograph stanza by the author, spine sunned, worn at head.
Together with 5 manuscript items, comprising: 1) Notebook including 'An Adventure with the "Press-gang" in Shetland in 1805, narrated verbatim by the Rev. Sinclair Thomson of Dunrossness, one of the principal actors, Edinburgh, 17 Septr 1862', 'Tacitus on Orkney and Shetland', 'Rosslyn, a Commemoration Sketch', 'To the editor of the Shetland Advertiser', verse, notes on classical authors, etc., 8vo, contemporary quarter skiver; 2) Manuscript hymn-book, 1805, containing words and scores, oblong 8vo, contemporary red roan gilt, watercolour vignette title-page, approx. 16 ff.; 3) Early-18th-century Scottish manuscript including 'The Scot Litany' and other poems, 6 ff.; 4 & 5) Two early-20th-century autograph/friendship albums
Footnote
Note: Two institutional copies traced (British Library and Bodleian). Contents include 'The Cambrian Excursion' and 'On Hearing the Nightingale, in a Thicket, near Black Bourton, Oxon'.