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Sonnets : album, [between 1900 and 1920?].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 554
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sonnets.
- Genre:
- Illuminations.
- Poems.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bookplate inside front cover: Library of the University of Pennsylvania, The Ritchie Bequest.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (27 leaves)
- Place of Publication:
- [between 1900 and 1920?].
- Summary:
- An early-20th-century anthology of sonnets by poets ranging from Shakespeare and Milton to Victorians such as James Russell Lowell, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Edward Cracroft Lefroy. Each sonnet is framed by an elaborate geometrical border highlighted in gold and mounted on a cardboard album page. The pages are detached from but boxed with the album binding.
- OCLC:
- 155925690
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