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Creator
Date
ca. 1816-1822
Location
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Media format
Manuscript text
Extent
90 leaves
Language
English
Size
24 x 19 cm
Genre
Literary
Art
Art
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 228843
Folger call number: M.a.170
Folger holdings ID: 260905
Accession Number: cs1176
Folger call number: M.a.170
Folger holdings ID: 260905
Accession Number: cs1176
Summary
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)
Notes
General notes
The paper is watermarked 1816 14 blank leaves Half red roan
Also known as
Extended title: Poetical miscellany of Emma Elizabeth Puleston ca. 1816-1822
Alternate titles: Commonplace book, ca. 1816-1822
Alternate titles: Commonplace book, ca. 1816-1822
Subjects
Related names
compiler: Puleston, Emma Elizabeth, -1850
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616