Sa2.4.30
The Montem ode May 20, 1823.
Windsor : C. Knight, printer, [1823].
1 broadside ; 32 x 19 cm.
Woodcut at the top representing a lion and an unicorn and the moto 'honi soit qui mal y pense'.
Signed by Mr William Pott on the front pastedown.
Includes five tickets to Eton Montem dated 1838-1844 pasted on the back pastedown.
Price £55-60 in pencil on the first folio by modern hand.
19th century red grain paper with floral open pattern and brown borders; red marbled paper on pastedown; remnants of a green tie on the back pastedown. Binding bigger than the item, probably reused.
The broadside is pasted inside Ms 397, An illuminated collection of choice fugitive pieces composed in the merry month of May 1823 selected with impartiality from the portfolios of the several authors when sojorning at Salt Hill under the kind auspices of their friend Gulielmus Pott, Eton 1823, ff. 35r-36v.
Great Britain England Windsor.
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