Miscellaneous Manuscripts – Kent, Genealogy, an early-mid 19...

Hammer

£25

Miscellaneous Manuscripts – Kent, Genealogy, an early-mid 19th century ink and pencil MS, compiled by Henry Case, 35, Gower Place, New Road, London [now parallel to Euston Road, WC1), with genealogical details and notes of the Towl family and of the landholding and tenancies of John Frith (d. 1795) in the county: Crayford, Dartford, East Wickham, Erith, Eynsford, etc., and with considerable transcriptions of the Frith family entries from the parish register of Eynsford, Stone, and North Cray, contemporary sheep, blind-ruled, oblong 8vo, (1); Sacred Music, a late 19th century anthology of musical scores, 60ff only (rest of the ruled volume blank), principally titled hymns – yet inscribed with musical notation only, dated Christmas 1883, bound in contemporary vellum gilt, panelled cover monogrammed: G.M.W., all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); an early 20th century sketchbook, illustrated with pencil drawings of Old Master pictures and sculpture, named-view topography, etc., some tipped-in engravings and scraps, MS titled paper label to upper-cover, marbled boards only, oblong 4to, (1); Poetry, an early-mid 19th century commonplace scrapbook of verse, compiled with clipped and pasted-in printed verse from periodicals and other publications, contemporary quarter-roan over marbled boards (worn), 8vo, (1), [4]