Manuscripts
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836. Westall's Illustrations of Byron's Works, with Suitable Extras, and a Brief Memoir
- Description
Bound volume, 31 pages (with 28 blank pages interleaved between the illustrative plates); the printed illustrative plates were drawn by Richard Westall and engraved by various artists. The "brief memoir" of Bryon and the "suitable extras" (short extracts from various poems by Bryon) are written in an unknown hand and signed with the initials: "MM" and dated, 1834. The volume also has the bookplate of Henry Ecroyd Smith on the inside front cover.
- Date
- 1834
- Call number
- HM 63286
- Provenance
- purchased from Cesi Kellinger, February 1, 1984.
- donated by Mr. Edwards H. Metcalf, June 15, 1992 (manuscript volume).
- Associated people
- Carr, John, (1772-1832.)
