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Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761. Pedigree showing descent of Lord and Lady Pomfret from King Edward I, circa 1750.

Title: Pedigree showing descent of Lord and Lady Pomfret from King Edward I, circa 1750.

Manuscript on vellum, in a single hand, of 21 elaborately illuminated pages, each with a unique decorative boarder, illustrating the ancestry of Lady Henrietta Pomfret and Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl Pomfret as descended from King Edward I. The genealogy appears on each recto; on the facing-page verso is painted a sprouting pineapple plant decorated with coats of arms. On the first page, opposite a portrait of Edward I, are letters illuminated with gold leaf.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (11 leaves) : 21 ill. ; 31 cm.

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Townley, W. R. (Wellington Reid), b. 1861. The bookplates of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries : with selected passages from the Letters of Horace Walpole and illustrated by over 100 book plates of the friends to whom the letters referred, Chicago, 1923 / the selections made and the whole arranged in this form by Wellington R. Townley.

Title: The bookplates of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries : with selected passages from the Letters of Horace Walpole and illustrated by over 100 book plates of the friends to whom the letters referred, Chicago, 1923 / the selections made and the whole arranged in this form by Wellington R. Townley.

Manuscript in a single hand, with examples of bookplates of Horace Walpole's friends and correspondents, arranged alphabetically and mounted on leaves interspersed with brief biographies of the bookplate owners and excerpts from Walpole's letters about the subjects. Written as a wedding present for Townley's wife, Bella Madden Townley. Two letters tipped in; one a fragment from 'Orford' and dated from London January the nineteenth 1795 to Richard French, Esq.; the second from Lady Pomfret, to Lady Sundon, dated 1737 Nov. 22 in which she expresses her sorrow at the sudden death of Queen Caroline and concern over Lady Sundon's own recent illness.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. a-h, [1], i-x, [2], 201 [i.e., 298] leaves : ill., port. ; 26 cm.

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