LOT 3098
26th July 2022
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LOT 3098
MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written rhyming sexain poem of 41 stanzas relating the death King William Rufus by William Tyrrel in the New Forest in the year 1100. N.p.: circa 1880.] 16pp., manuscript, disbound (233 x 189mm.) Titled 'The Red King', 246 hand-written lines of rhyming poetry in a legible hand on 'Bath' embossed paper relating the death of 'The Red King', 1 intricately hand-drawn headpiece. (Corner creasing, a tear to p.1, minor soiling.) Disbound. Note: very likely influenced by Charles Kingsley's poem on the same subject, this version has many motifs of the time: a raven, a dream of pre-cognition, a rural idyll of mist, mellowness, foreboding, and death.
Hammer price: £55
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