Folger-specific note
Bound with bib 367009
Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund.
From dealer's description: "Two works bound together, 8vo (180 × 110 mm), contemporary red goatskin over rope boards, all-over gilt pattern of drawer-handles, pointillé flowers and volutes, roll-tooled border, panelled spine in six compartments, gilt edges. Minimal rubbing (mainly to corners, which are slightly inturned), tiny chips towards the foot of upper joint, but exceptionally well preserved. Bookplate of G.S. Evans, Pembroke College, Oxford. Modern cloth case. Anne Killigrew's copies with her inscription, bound in lavish red goatskin by the 'Queens' Binder A'. Anne (1660-1685), poet and painter, was 'born in St Martin's Lane, London, the daughter of Dr Henry Killigrew, chaplain and almoner to the duke of York, master of the Savoy, and prebendary of Westminster, and his wife, Judith. Her uncles Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Killigrew were prominent figures in the Restoration theatre. Anne was born shortly before the Restoration 'and christened in a private chamber, when the offices in the common-prayer were not publicly allowed' (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 4.623). She was 'tenderly educated' and soon 'became most admirable in the arts of poetry and painting'... In 1683 Anne is listed as one of the six maids of honour to Mary of Modena. She never married. Her beauty, piety, and exemplary virtue are stressed in all the early records. In 1685 she succumbed to smallpox' (Oxford DNB). In the train of Mary of Modena (the king's sister-in-law) she was also close to Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea). Assuming Anne inscribed this book on receipt, she was perhaps given it at the age of 13, in the same year as the 15-year-old Mary of Modena married James, Duke of York and arrived at court. Anne's precocious talent as both poet and painter was eulogised in Dryden's celebrated ode 'To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesie and Painting', which appeared in the edition of her Poems posthumously published by her father in 1686. Only a handful of her paintings survive, but they include a self-portrait, a portrait of James II and an exquisite Venus Attired by the Graces."
Ordered from Justin Croft Antiquarian Books D9364, 2019-11-08, Cat. Boston International Book Fair, Novermber 15-17 2019, #29.
