Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred poems on primarily moral or spiritual subjects, many taken from printed works by such poets as John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Isaac Watts. Other entries include epitaphs and psalms. The volume also contains some of Hamby's own religious verses as well as verses by several of his Norfolk acquaintances. The work is prefaced by an introduction which declares that although a preface seems needless when the volume is meant for "one private person," the preface will be useful to those who will read the work after his decease. The preface provides an autobiography of Hamby, focusing on his development as a writer.
Description:
Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms., Autograph on title page: M. Toms., Binding: contemporary full morocco with gilt and blind-stamped decoration. Title on spine: Manuscript Poetry., Marbled endpapers., and Pasted in: engraved portrait of Nathaniel Hamby, "de Wymondham in Com. Norfoliciae."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 Harrison, William, 1534-1593 Niven, William Norden, John, 1548-1625? Map of London Rendle, William, 1811-1893 Wheatley, Henry Benjamin, 1838-1917. ... Map of London
Published / Created:
1877-81.
Call Number:
Zd 47
Image Count:
5
Description:
No. 1, 5 only. In pt. 1 the front. (fold. map) is bound following p. 1. With manuscript letter from J.F. Furnivall inserted., Part I. The second book, with extracts from the autograph manuscript of Harrison's Chronologie, and from foreign writers on England: also with Norden's map of London, 1593, and notes on it by Henry B. Wheatley., and Part II. The third book, with a view of the north of Cheapside in 1638 A.D., extracts from Stow, Howes, Busino, and De La Serre on London, 1598-1638; plans of Cambridge, and Canterbury, 1588 A.D.; and a map of Shakspere's routes to London; also with plans of Paris Garden, 1627, and the Bankside, Southwark, and an account of these places and the Globe and other theatres there, by W. Rendle ...
Publisher:
Pub. for the New Shakspere society, by N. Trübner & co.,
Subject (Geographic):
England--Description and travel, London (England)--Maps, and London (England)--Pictorial works
Manuscript copy, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand, of a text of Macbeth very similar to the Sir William Davenant version published in 1674. Ten pages supplied in a modern hand.
Description:
Binding: 18th century marbled boards; contemporary cloth case., Formerly owned by Sir William Turner., and Several additions on slips of paper attached to the pages with sealing wax are possibly in the hand of Sir William Turner.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership
"One of the most important of the books containing contemporary references to William Shakespeare"--cf. Pforzheimer. and Issued later under title: Wits Common Wealth.
Publisher:
Printed by P. Short, for Cuthbert Burbie, and are to be solde at his shop at the Royall Exchange,
Subject (Name):
Grave, Robert--Ownership, Heber, Richard,--1773-1833--Stamp, Hering, C.--Binding, and Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616
