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Anne Townshend Fonds
Fonds
1 volume (approximately 80 leaves) ; 23.5 x 19 cm
Anne Townshend, formerly Anne Montgomery, married George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, as his second wife in 1771.
Fonds consists of one manuscript album of poetry, belonging to the Marchioness Townshend. Contains various genres of poetry in English, written between 1769 and 1771, including "comic poems on various occasions." Quarto manuscript written on laid paper in a neat scribal hand in brown ink throughout.
English, with some Latin captions.
Contemporary calf binding, gilt fillet border, with later repairs. Armorial bookplate of the Marchioness Townshend.