Add. MS a/355/3/11
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24 Dec. 1926
Part of Additional Manuscripts a
(Oxford?)—Suggests examples of books before 1750 containing illustrations, for the bibliography.
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Transcript
Bibliography slip 32
Illustrations before 1750:
Portraits of course, e.g. in:
Drummond’s Works Paris {1} 1709
Pope’s Works 1717
etc. etc.
Fancy Pictures. Rape of the Lock 1714.
Thomson 1730—the four Seasons
Young Night Thoughts 1742—one plate
Pope’s Works Vol. II 1735—tailpieces etc. by Kent
Gay’s Poems 1720
[Gay's] {2} Shepherd’s Week
Philip’s Cyder
[The preceding three lines are braced on the right to:] all rustic subjects | Gay’s Fables!
Rowe’s Quean {1} I think has an allegorical frontispiece.
This is from memory—I think you must modify.
24:12:26 RWC
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{1} Reading uncertain.
{2} Represented by a ditto mark in the original.