THE COMMON PLACE BOOK OF THE REVEREND ROBERT POTTER, full le...

Hammer

£1,800

THE COMMON PLACE BOOK OF THE REVEREND ROBERT POTTER, full leather, laid paper, containing hand-written transcripts of various essays, poems etc, with titles including ‘Song To Crickett’, ‘A Monumental Inscription To The Memory Of Captain Thomas Grenville, Commander Of His Majesty’s Ship The Defiance’, ‘Notes On The Assizes, Or Benjamin Hall’s Ghost’, and ‘Sonnet On Mr Potter’s Completion Of His Translation Of Euripides’
Provenance: The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington.

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Front corners bumped and worn. Shelf wear to bottom edges of boards. Some scratching to front and back covers. Spine currently fully attached, but with full length split to the front and splits beginning to the back. Minor foxing and stains to pages throughout, most noticeable on the endpapers.