Partially Disbound Album, 1826

Album 7 1/2" x 9" bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Frond cover detatched. 72 leaves remaining bound in. Paper varies in color (white, cream, tan, and grey)and most leaves were not used.

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First leaf of album: Full page pen and ink drawing of closed door, inscribed "Ellen Parkes 1826"

Leaf 2 (both sides): Hand-written poem of dedication presumably to Ellen Harper Parkes, signed "Sarah Parkes Febry 8th, 1826"

Leaves 5-7. Three hand-written poems by "Miss Barbauld" entitled "Enigma to the Ladies", "Riddle" and "Logogriph". [A logogriph is a puzzle involving anagrams, especially one in which a number of words that can be spelled using a group of letters are to be identified from their synonyms introduced into a set of verses.]

Miss Barbauld was Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) a prominent English poet, essayist, critic, editor and author of children's literature.

These manuscripts were probably copied from The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld With a Memoir, by Lucy Aikin. in two volumes. London: 1825.

Leaf 10: Kenilworth Cottage, a pen and ink drawing 6 3/4" x 4 3/4" formerly mounted to the page, and a separate caption remaining mounted.

Leaf 12: Handwritten inscription "Chineze Ship", illustration lacking. Also many other pages with slits created to mount small cards with sketches, now loose and described separately.