Folger Shakespeare Library
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Julian I. Edison, St Louis, Missouri

  • [Esther Inglis Octonaires MS]

    Autograph calligraphic MS, v + 55 + 8 leaves, on rectos only, dated 1 January 1614/15, in contemporary dark red velvet embroidered.

    A New Year's presentation MS to Prince Charles, with a Dedication to him, in several styles of script, with colour and gold arms and decoration.

    1615.

    Sotheby's, 5 December 1989, lot 65. Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 65, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

    • *InE 21
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Verse Octonaires in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586.

      Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, escrits par Esther Inglis ce premier de l'an, 1615

  • [Esther Inglis Pybrac MS I]

    Autograph calligraphic MS, in numerous styles of script, with little decoration, on rectos only, vii + 126 leaves (43 x 61 mm.), dated 10 December 1599, in contemporary calf gilt.

    1599.

    Later owned by Joseph Mayer (1870, and by Baroness Angela Burgett-Coutts (1814-1906), philanthropist. Sotheby's, 16 May 1922, lot 223. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 437 (1923), item 1023. Raphaël Esmerian, New York, 1966 (sale catalogue, Part 1, 6 June 1972, item 9), sold to Julian I. Edison.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 11 (pp. 40-1), with a facsimile of one page as Plate 18 (between pp. 42 and 43). Facsimile example in Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison, Miniature Books (2007), p. 29.

    • *InE 43
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

      Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac gentil homme François: Escrit en diverses sortes de lettres Par Esther Anglois Françoise, A Lislebourg le X. de Dec. 1599

  • [Esther Inglis Pybrac MS II]

    Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 121 + v leaves (44 x 74 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt.

    A New Year's presentation MS to Robert Carr (1585/6?-1645), Earl of Somerset, with a Dedication to him, in small Roman script, some majuscules in italic, with gold decoration, lacking what was probably a self-portrait.

    1 January 1614/15.

    Inscribed in the 19th century The present of Mr Hamerton Godfather. Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 18.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 45 (p. 74). Facsimile of the title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile examples in Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison, Miniature Books (2007), pp. 29 and 31. A set of photocopies and two photographs in British Library, RP 3330.

    • *InE 51
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576, and verse Octonaires in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586.

      Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les six vingts et six quatrains de Guy de Faur Sieur de Pybrac. Escrits, par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu le premier de l'an 1615 [and] Les cinquante octonaires sur la vanite et inconstance du monde, escrits, par Esther Inglis, pour son dernier adieu. Le premier de l'an, 1615

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