Poetical miscellany of Emma Elizabeth Puleston [manuscript], ca. 1816-1822.

Poetical miscellany of Emma Elizabeth Puleston [manuscript], ca. 1816-1822.

Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1816-1822.

90 leaves : col. ill. ; 24 x 19 cm

Poems, some probably by Mrs. Puleston, some copied from books, some, as the lines written "on her birthday, Feby 9th 1822" written into this volume album-wise. A transcript of Shakespeare's epitaph on leaf 67. The book is decorated with watercolors, most floral vignettes, but also including depictions of the mouth of the Frith of Forth (leaf 50), a dandy (leaf 58), and two demons (Mr. Ringtail and Mr. Noseworthy) playing billiards (leaf 72).

The paper is watermarked 1816.

14 blank leaves.

Half red roan.

M.a.170

cs1176