Autograph Manuscript leaf headed Notes of a Visit to the Tower
$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
1-1/8 pages. 8vo. Fine. Item #305651 Unpublished manuscript notes made by Irving following a visit, at an unknown date, to the Tower of London. In part: The treasury of crimes; the horror of sighs; the church of St Peters within the tower is the burial place of most of those guarded persons who have been sacrificed. There rests the dust of that excellent man and holy martyr Fisher Bishop of Rochester, also the wise, the witty and the good Sir
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