£250
Wales. A mid-18th c manuscript commonplace book/anthology of verse, probably the property of and inscribed by a member of the Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay, n.d., [13]ff in a uniform hand, including the astronomical poem On seeing a Comet, in the Year 1769. A Night-scene., the leaves disbound, chipped in places with some occasional light losses, as such a few poems are now possibly fragmentary, original marbled wrappers, worn, 4to, three loosely-inserted leaves in a hand uniform to the latter, taken from a smaller 12mo volume, inscribed with medical receipts, etc
The provenance attribution of this lot is based on the manuscript having been removed from the bundle, also in this sale, that included two Williams-Wynn rental books. In addition, each poem here is monogrammed AW ; though only a singular W it does confirm with extant inscriptions, both manuscript and printed, of other Williams-Wynns in the 18th and first-half of the 19th c.
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