Zone d'identification
Cote
Add. MS b/159
Titre
William Mills: "The Georgics of Virgil, translated into English blank verse"
Date(s)
- 1772-1780 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
1 vol.
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Histoire archivistique
Written on front endpaper: " I. Lee, Doctors Commons. No. 1152 of Mr Thorpe's Catalogue of Manuscripts, 1832", accompanied by a bookplate with the Lee family crest.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Source of acquisition unknown. Two other volumes from Lee's library were the bequest of William Aldis Wright, 1914.
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Portée et contenu
Draft of a translation with revisions and with manuscript copies of newspaper reviews on its publication in 1780, including one signed 'Classicus' with a later hand at top identifying it as the handwriting of Mr Mills "& most probably written by himself".
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Related units of description
One of 19 bound MSS formerly owned by John Lee: Add.MS.a.630, Add.MS.b.158-166, Add.MS.c.173-181.