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Title
Poetical compositions on various subjects [Vol. 4]: and translations from Latin authors; Poetical compositions on various subjects consisting chiefly of occasional pieces of humour; Private memoirs of the life of the Rev. John Sanderson, A.B. / written by himself and designed for domestic perusal.
Alternative Title
Poetical compositions on various subjects consisting chiefly of occasional pieces of humour.
Private memoirs of the life of the Rev. John Sanderson, A.B.
Sanderson's poems.
Sanderson's memoirs.
Creator
Sanderson, John, b. 1770.
Contributor
Fairfax of Cameron, Albert Fairfax, Baron, 1870-1939, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued
[1787-1832]
Contributing Institution
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection
Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: Manuscript. Spine of each volume numbered 1-3; spine of v. 4 marked "3." Place of composition on title pages of each volume: "Doncaster" (v. 1), "Houghton" (v.2), "Darfield" (v. 3), "Tyers-Hill" (v. 4). V. 1 illustrated with frontispiece showing the author's self portrait, and other illustrations throughout the text.
Scope/Content: Four manuscript volumes of poetry and prose works by John Sanderson, a Yorkshire poet and minister who was an almost exact contemporary of Wordsworth's. Sanderson's poetry was apparently published in newspapers including The Yorkshire journal and the Sheffield register under the signatures "Doncaster" and "Clericus." His memoirs, still written when he was a young man, detail his schooldays, his clerkship, his studies at Oxford, walking tours taken with friends, his entrance into the church and his marriage. Poetry dates from between about 1787 and 1832.
Condition: Bound in contemporary straight-grained red morocco with gilt edges and neo-classical ornaments on spines.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Memoirs
Poems
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent
4 v. (187, [1]; 127, [1]; 120; 207, [7] p.), bound :ill. ;20 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1gc98
MS.2000.005, vol. 4
Language
English
eng
Subject
English poetry--18th century.
Place
England--Yorkshire
Provenance
Each volume with armorial bookplate "Ex Libris Fairfax of Cameron" on front paste-down endpapers; Lot 517 in the Fairfax Library and Archive sale, Sotheby's, December 1993.
Location
CLUW

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