Call Number:

Ms. Codex 2304

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

.2 linear feet (2 volumes)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Eliza Gulston annotations to A collection of poems in four volumes by several hands, not before 1809, Ms. Codex 2304, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

not before 1809

Creator:

Gulston, Eliza, 1769-1857

Form:

Annotations

Abstract:

Eliza Gulston was the daughter of book and print collector Joseph Gulston (1745-1786) and amateur artist, poet, and astronomer Elizabeth Bridgetta Stepney (1749-1780). Some time before 1809, she created these two volumes which contain Volumes 1 and 2 of A collection of poems in four volumes by several hands (London: J. Hughs for R. and J. Dodsley, 1755), mounted into quarto sheets, interleaved, and heavily annotated mostly on the interleaved sheets by Eliza Gulston with historical and biographical notes.

Eliza Gulston was the daughter of book and print collector Joseph Gulston (1745-1786) and amateur artist, poet, and astronomer Elizabeth Bridgetta Stepney (1749-1780). She took the name Eliza Stepney-Gulston after inheriting the estate of her cousin Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Bart, at his death in 1825 (armorial bookplate inside front covers).

Volumes 1 and 2 of A collection of poems in four volumes by several hands (London: J. Hughs for R. and J. Dodsley, 1755), mounted into quarto sheets, interleaved, and heavily annotated mostly on the interleaved sheets by Eliza Gulston with historical and biographical notes from sources such as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English poets; William Coxe's Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; and the letters of Horace Walpole. The mounting and interleaves have fleur de lis and 1809 watermarks, and additional notes were added in the late 19th century by another reader. Half bound in calf with amateur reback and paper covering the older binding (Dean Cooke).