An early 19th century lady's commonplace book, Isabella's Gl...

Hammer

£130

An early 19th century lady's commonplace book, Isabella's Gleanings, the ink MS title page surmounted by a plumbago allegorical angel, holding a squill and scroll inscribed Please to Write, preface dated January 1828 (4), original prose and verse composition throughout, the works embellished with coloured botanical still lives, including an ode To Consumption, maxims, passages from the poetical oeuvres of Lord Byron, friend's manuscript sentiments, further still lives, monochrome landscapes, quarter-maroon with marbled boards, the corner and strip embossed with reserves of flowerheads, the spine similar and in gilt compartments, marbled endpapers, 8vo