BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 17 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in two columns., and Advertising matter on p. 16.
Outrage on a British seaman as seen by an eye witness and Lecture will be delivered in the above place, on Wednesday evening, August the 16th, by Mr. J. Brown
Description:
BEIN 2012 Folio 208: Imperfect: mutilated along edges, with some small holes, with no loss of text. Accompanied by two newspaper clippings pasted onto sheet of paper, with ms. note at head of top clipping "Aylesbury news, August 5, 1856."
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Robert Gibbs, printer, Advertiser Office, Bourbon-Street
Sketchbook containing 37 watercolors done by Ellis Cornelia Knight while on board Lord Nelson's flagship the Foudroyant with Sir William and Lady Emma Hamilton in 1800. Twenty-six sketches are views taken from the ship off the coast of Sicily, under sail to Malta, and returning from Malta to Palermo. There are also sketches taken in Palermo prior to sailing, and on excursions from the ship near Syracuse. Sketch 2, for example, shows the villa of Prince Ventimiglieri in Palermo; sketch 19 shows an excursion party rowing near Syracuse. There is an index at the back of the volume
Description:
Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757-1837), writer, governess and protégé of Lady Emma Hamilton, whom she broke with after Lady Hamilton's affair with Lord Nelson became public knowledge in England. Knight's works include Dinarbas: A Tale (1790) and Sir Guy de Lusignan (1833)., In English., Inscribed on verso of flyleaf by Knight: "This book was commenced at Palermo in Sicily, 1800. Finished at Windsor, 1806.", and Binding: contemporary full calf; gilt decoration.
