BIB_ID
197480
Accession number
MA 4500
Creator
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Display Date
[17--.].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.2 x 18.2 cm
Notes
An unsigned copy of three poems by David Garrick, three of which, including the introductory text to the first poem, were published in: The poetical works of David Garrick, Esq. (London : George Kearsley, 1785).
Manuscript may possibly be that described as part of a lot of manuscripts attributed to William Combe (i.e., "Mr. Garrick invited & strongly press'd to pass a week en famillc at Warwick Castle, arrives, is shewn the Curiosities like a common traveller ...etc."), offered at auction in 1926 and described as part of lot 117 in the catalog: First editions of American and English authors, Grolier Club and fine press publications, inscribed copies, autographs of celebrities, including the collection of the late Brandreth Symonds, M.D. of Tompkinsville, Staten Island (sold by order of Mrs. Florence B. Symonds) and selections from the library of Ralph E. Samuel of New York City. New York : American Art Association, 1926.
Manuscript may possibly be that described as part of a lot of manuscripts attributed to William Combe (i.e., "Mr. Garrick invited & strongly press'd to pass a week en famillc at Warwick Castle, arrives, is shewn the Curiosities like a common traveller ...etc."), offered at auction in 1926 and described as part of lot 117 in the catalog: First editions of American and English authors, Grolier Club and fine press publications, inscribed copies, autographs of celebrities, including the collection of the late Brandreth Symonds, M.D. of Tompkinsville, Staten Island (sold by order of Mrs. Florence B. Symonds) and selections from the library of Ralph E. Samuel of New York City. New York : American Art Association, 1926.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "By George Combe" at upper left of first page; identification of the copyist with the well-known phrenologist George Combe (1788-1858) seems unlikely, as the manuscript does not appear to be in his hand and its overall subject and seeming age do not support the attribution.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Manuscript contains the texts of three satirical poems on the subject of the Earl of Warwick; the first with an introduction reading, "Mr. Garrick invited & strongly press'd to pass a week en famille at Warwick Castle, arrives, is shewn the Curiosities like a common Traveller, treated with Chocolate, & dismissed directly; upon which he wrote the following Verses", with the first line: Some strollers invited by Warwick's kind earl; the second poem with the title, ""An inscription for the Castle Gateway", with the first line: When Neville the stout Earl of Warwick liv'd here; the third poem entitled "Upon a certain Lord's (Ld.W.) giving some thousand Pounds for a House, with first line: So many thousands for a House.
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