containing c.42 items, most mounted in the album, including poems by Madame de Genlis (four-line autograph quotation signed, "D.cesse De Genlis"), Felicia Hemans (autograph poem initialled, entitled 'Farewell to Abbotsford', beginning "Home of the gifted!"), and William Wordsworth (transcript entirely in the hand of his daughter Dora Wordsworth of 'On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford', beginning "A trouble, not of clouds or weeping rain", dated, "Trossacks Septbr 29th", and signed, "Wm Wordsworth"); family portraits including a pencil and watercolour sketch of Sir Walter?s grandson, Walter S. Lockhart, dated 1830, and a silhouette of Scott by his daughter Anne, dated 25 March 1821; sketches or studies by artists including William Gell (2 ink sketches of Italian scenes, dated 26 January and 11 March 1832), Francis Grant (4 four sketches or studies including studies for a battle scene, 1830), Michelangelo Caetani, and Edward Cheney; album on various coloured paper (including white Whatman paper watermarked 1831), 36 pages, plus blanks, with three items loose at the back of the volume, 4to, red morocco gilt, inside dentelles incorporating a lyre, silk endpapers, lockable clasp; binding worn at edges
containing c.42 items, most mounted in the album, including poems by Madame de Genlis (four-line autograph quotation signed, "D.cesse De Genlis"), Felicia Hemans (autograph poem initialled, entitled 'Farewell to Abbotsford', beginning "Home of the gifted!"), and William Wordsworth (transcript entirely in the hand of his daughter Dora Wordsworth of 'On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford', beginning "A trouble, not of clouds or weeping rain", dated, "Trossacks Septbr 29th", and signed, "Wm Wordsworth"); family portraits including a pencil and watercolour sketch of Sir Walter?s grandson, Walter S. Lockhart, dated 1830, and a silhouette of Scott by his daughter Anne, dated 25 March 1821; sketches or studies by artists including William Gell (2 ink sketches of Italian scenes, dated 26 January and 11 March 1832), Francis Grant (4 four sketches or studies including studies for a battle scene, 1830), Michelangelo Caetani, and Edward Cheney; album on various coloured paper (including white Whatman paper watermarked 1831), 36 pages, plus blanks, with three items loose at the back of the volume, 4to, red morocco gilt, inside dentelles incorporating a lyre, silk endpapers, lockable clasp; binding worn at edges
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