Hampton Court/Early Poems, the Arkwright family's album of m...

Hammer

£250

Hampton Court/Early Poems, the Arkwright family's album of manuscript verse, [61]pp, n.d. [mid-19th century], the family explore various subjects through poetry, which sounds as high-minded as the subjects they explore, including the Jesuits, 'On a Victim', 'The death of a favourite', etc., however there is an evident great sense of fun shown, personified by 'On Bed' or 'A Dimple - also George's boat being swamped at Eton', slightly earlier 19th century maroon morocco, blind-rolled anthemion borderes, yellow-stained edges, pale yellow endpapers, 8vo.

The poems and album seem to have been an exercise and entertainment for the children of John Arkwright (1785-1858). Born in Bakewell, Derbyshire, a grandson of the great Industrial Revolution entrepreneur Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), he bought Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire, in 1810. 

Provenance: the Arkwright family of Hampton Court Castle, and later Kinsham Court, Herefordshire.