These pages are dedicated to a beloved mother

by her daughter Maria D'Wolfe Lady of the Lily ... Received the Lily's Badge of the Order of Neatness by Maria D'Wolfe

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New Port: February 5, 1812. Small 4to, pp. 20 ; 9 leaves of exquisite penmanship, each leaf adorned with an attractive watercolor or two of floral and botanical motifs; very nice. Maria was the fourth child of William and Charlotte De Wolfe. In 1814 she married Robert Rogers, a wealthy and prominent banker in Bristol, after whose death Maria endowed the Rogers Free Library in Bristol, still standing and still in operation. Item #56466

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