Shelfmark
MS 637
Author
Title
Poem to the memory of Richard West, Esqr, who died at Popes in Herefordshire June I [sic] 1742, after a tedious and painful indisposition in the 26th year of his age. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, circa 1742.
Physical description
1 item : paper ; 20 x 16 cm.
Note
Caption title, except for first word added by cataloguer.
Note
Place of production inferred from Ashton's biography, and date of production from the caption title.
Note
24 line poem of four line stanzas. First line reads: While, surfeited with life, eaach hoary knave.
Note
A fair copy autograph manuscript.
Note
Written in ink. Heavily creased.
Binding
Stored in a blue buckram covered solander box, with dark blue leather spine; gold stamped title on spine: 'The Quadruple Alliance'.
Subject
Added entry--place
England
Language code
dcrmmss
Identifier
B49758