'Visits in Verreopolis/By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley/Vol I.'

• Original object type: Artefact

Description

Autograph miniature manuscript, the first of two volumes. Title page reads 'Visits in Verreopolis by Lord Charles Wellesley in Two Volumes […] Published by Sergeant Tree and sold by all other booksellers in the Cheif [sic] Glass Town, the Duke of Wellington’s Glass Town, Parry’s Glass Town, Ross’s Glass Town, Paris, etc. I began this volume on the 7th of December and finished it on the 11th of December 1830 Charlotte Brontë'.

Includes brief preface (by “Charles Wellesley”) and contents page.

Hand-cut leaves of slightly different sizes, with original blue paper wrappers (stamped “Purified Epsom Salts, Sold by J. West, Chemist & Druggist, Keighley”), each stab-stitched in a single gathering.

See: Alexander 154, 155; BrC 283; Early Writings, vol. 1, pp.297-327

• Date range: 7-18 Dec 1830
• Date: 1918
• Subjects: University Subjects > English
• Collection: English Literature
• Physical Identifier: MS 2266/01