A Late Regency & Early Victorian Norfolk & Cambridgeshire Commonplace Book - Containing Important Eighteenth Century Ephemera

Wodehouse, Reverend Charles Nourse (1790-1870)

Verlag: 1825-1857, 1825

364 pages, 298 used, the first 289 continuously, then sporadically thereafter. A mixture of handwritten material, quotes, articles, extracts, epitaphs and poetry, interspersed with ephemera and cuttings. Plus, an additional 9 loosely inserted items, mainly letters. The compiler is almost certainly the Reverend Charles Nourse Wodehouse (1790-1870), Bishop of Norwich, at least one newspaper cutting bears his name, the dates of the entries correspond with his adult life and ecclesiastical career, and much of it probably provided inspiration for his sermons. The book is bound in the original half-calf with marbled boards, though the spine strip has been lost it remains robust with all pages firmly attached. Notable ephemera includes: A Frost Fair Ticket "Printed upon the Thames when frozen, January 12th, 1740" for an Elizabeth Pomeroy, which has been pasted in, with a fold mark and wear down the centre. A note addressed to presumably the same "Miss Pomeroy" by somebody whose identity remains obscure, concerning her father's health and her lonely position. A printed and hand-corrected flyer for "Backsword Playing" from 1783 offering: "A Gold Laced HAT, Value Thirty Shillings, to the Man that breaks the most heads". A used Mulready envelope. A 7-line handwritten extract from a letter or document by author and controversialist, Gilbert Wakefield (1756-1801). A remarkable document presented to Gilbert Wakefield on the occasion of his marriage in 1779, by: "The Resident Members" of Cambridge's Hyson Club(formed by members of the Wranglers Club in 1757 for the exclusive purpose of meeting for tea and conversation). The members, who include: Edward Waring, Samuel Vince and Isaac Milner, have all signed their names below the inscription. An advertising flyer from 1832 for George Wakefield's (son of Gilbert Wakefield) cottage in the Lakes. A William Roscoe (1753-1831) poem, signed and with minor hand corrections, the hand certainly not that of the compiler of the commonplace book and bearing more than a passing resemblance to Roscoe's. An 11-verse song intended to be sung to the tune of Derry Down, beginning: "A taylor there was and he lived in a garret", on watermarked paper that looks to be 18th or early 19th century, sadly unattributed. A black bordered Victorian mourning poem titled 'I Miss Thee' dated 1847. Dates noted in the commonplace book itself range from the mid-1820s until 1857, with one later entry regarding the 1869 controversy caused by Harriet Beecher Stowe's assertions that: "the real cause of Lord Byron's separation from his Wife [was] his incestuous connexion with his half-sister Miss Leigh in England". Other written content includes: 7 pages devoted to the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, commentary on the formation of the Railway Companies in the early 1840s, and poetry from The London Magazine and The New Monthly Mag, The Rambler, The Literary Chronicler, Bell's Life in London and Hone's Every-Day Book. Unsurprisingly, given the ephemera noted above, both William Roscoe and Gilbert Wakefield also figure largely. Pleasingly, practically every contribution has an attribution, most have a date and many cuttings are annotated. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6791

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Titel: A Late Regency & Early Victorian Norfolk & ...
Verlag: 1825-1857
Erscheinungsdatum: 1825
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers