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‘A Manuscript Album written by an affectionate Father to his Daughter Elizabeth Miller Anne’. Deptford, Kent, 1833.
Squarish 12mo manuscript, ff. [42], plus blanks; black ink on white, blue and pink paper, in a single hand, with one later interpolation dated 1889; with two colour drawings of flowers; generally in good condition; in contemporary green roan embossed with a leaf pattern over diapering, spine worn and fragile.
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‘A Manuscript Album written by an affectionate Father to his Daughter Elizabeth Miller Anne’.
An attractive small-format gift album of verse with an interesting local twist for Southeast London – selections include ‘on viewing the scenery from Grove Hill Camberwell in Surrey’ (from Grove Hill by Thomas Maurice 1799), ‘On Greenwich Hospital’ (from John Leland), ‘On seeing Shooters Hill in Kent’ and ‘To Erith a Sweet Village in Kent’ (both from Robert Bloomfield). Most of the other contents focus on piety, morality, and the natural world. We have not been able to identify either the donor or recipient.