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Auction archive: Lot number 256•

WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM)

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£5,400
ca. US$8,626
Auction archive: Lot number 256•

WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM)

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£5,400
ca. US$8,626
Beschreibung:

Autograph manuscript of his poem ‘First Floweret of the Year’, signed (“Wm Wordsworth”) and dated “Whitehaven Castle 1st Oct.br 1823”, comprising sixteen lines beginning: “First Floweret of the year is that which shows/ Its rival whiteness mid surrounding snows” and ending: “Strangers! forgive the deed, an unsought task,/ For what you look on, Friendship deigned to ask”; written at the head of an album containing verses and illustrated with poems and drawings, in watercolour, grey washes, pencil and pen-and-ink in various amateur hands, including a transcript, in an early nineteenth century, probably female, hand of Southey’s lines written for the Countess of Lonsdale’s album, 1821, headed with a vignette view of Rydal Water and concluded with a finely romantic view of Lowther Castle seen across rolling woodland; the last verse in the album dated 15 April 1826, Wordsworth’s poem on one page, a dozen other pages filled otherwise remaining blank, one leaf seemingly extracted, half red morocco over boards, 8vo, 1823-1826

Auction archive: Lot number 256•
Auction:
Datum:
23 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Autograph manuscript of his poem ‘First Floweret of the Year’, signed (“Wm Wordsworth”) and dated “Whitehaven Castle 1st Oct.br 1823”, comprising sixteen lines beginning: “First Floweret of the year is that which shows/ Its rival whiteness mid surrounding snows” and ending: “Strangers! forgive the deed, an unsought task,/ For what you look on, Friendship deigned to ask”; written at the head of an album containing verses and illustrated with poems and drawings, in watercolour, grey washes, pencil and pen-and-ink in various amateur hands, including a transcript, in an early nineteenth century, probably female, hand of Southey’s lines written for the Countess of Lonsdale’s album, 1821, headed with a vignette view of Rydal Water and concluded with a finely romantic view of Lowther Castle seen across rolling woodland; the last verse in the album dated 15 April 1826, Wordsworth’s poem on one page, a dozen other pages filled otherwise remaining blank, one leaf seemingly extracted, half red morocco over boards, 8vo, 1823-1826

Auction archive: Lot number 256•
Auction:
Datum:
23 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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