Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 8 primarily melancholy poems copied from various authors, on such subjects as love, solitude, and loneliness. The collection contains Alexander Pope's Eloise to Abelard; Mrs. Madan's Abelard to Eloisa; Aaron Hill's Alone in an inn at Southampton Court; and William Congreve's To a candle. Other titles include The late Lord Harvey to Mr. Fox; The castle top, wrote by a lad at Winchester School; and A hermit's meditation.
Description:
Binding: full parchment. and Imperfect: p. 34-35 wanting.
Subject (Name):
Héloïse,--1101-1164--Poetry, Hill, Aaron,--1685-1750, Madan, Judith,--1702-1781, and Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Solitude--Poetry, and Women authors
No. 86 of 88 works bound together, with manuscript collective title page ("Coleccion de folletos. Tom. XXXVIII. Poesias americanas, segunda parte. 1737 á 1844. M.O. Lima: 1848") and table of contents on [8] p. at front of vol. Spine numbering designates this as vol. 23 (not 38, as per manuscript title page). From the library of Hiram Bingham. Stamped: "Bought of F. Perez de Velasco October 1912" and "The South American Exploration Fund Yale University.
Publisher:
Imprenta de Eusebio Aranda,
Subject (Name):
Flores, Juan José,--1800-1864--Poetry and Pérez de Velasco, Francisco--Ownership
"G. Steevens" stamped on t.p.; bookplate of Frederic Perkins., Errors in pagination., First edition, with dedicatory sonnet to Sir Thomas Mounson, signed R.A., and With manuscript annotations.
Publisher:
for N[icholas] L[ing] C[uthbert] B[urby] and T[homas] H[aies],
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Frederic--Bookplate and Steevens, G.--Stamp
Castorena y Ursúa, Juan Ignacio de, 1668-1733 Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695
Published / Created:
1701
Call Number:
He93m 490g
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Publisher:
M. Deslandes,
Subject (Name):
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695. Fama y obras pósthumas del fénix de México, décima musa, poetisa americana, sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695. Poems
