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John Keats: Fragment of poem 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
Scope & Content:
Autograph first draft. Fifty-seven lines (including deletions) from the 4th leaf of the poem. The whole work consists of 242 lines in rhyming couplets, drafted on ten leaves. Lines 87-106 of the final version are drafted on the recto, and lines 123-150 on the verso of this fragment. The gap be...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXIV. Heinrich von Kleist: three patriotic poems; 1806. Fair copies. German. See Heinrich von Kleist, Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, ed. H. Sembdner, vol. 1 (Munich, 1964), pp. 24-28. ff. 5. 211 x 163mm. 1. ff. 1-3v. 'Germania an ihre Kinder'. 2. ff. 4-4v. 'An K...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXV. Jean de la Fontaine: five poems; 1660. Fair copies. French. See Oeuvres Diverses de la Fontaine, ed. P. Clarac (Paris, 1948), pp. 500, 501, 509. f. 1. 226 x 167mm. 1. f. 1. 'Madrigal Au Roy et a l'Infante'. 2. f. 1. 'Autre Pour le Roy'. 3. f. 1. 'Autre...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVI. Henri Masers de Latude: part 20 of the Mémoire sent from Vincennes to M. de Sartine, Lieutenant-General of the Police; 1770. French. ff. 24. 159 x 88mm. Notebook with marbled paper covers, inserted in a portfolio of matching paper-covered boards, half bound ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVII. Giacomo Leopardi: poem headed 'XXXVIII. Dal greco di Simonide'; early 19th cent. Draft. Italian. See Tutti le Opere di Giacomo Leopardi, ed. Francesco Flora, 'Le Poesie e le Prose', vol. I (Milan, 1945), p. 135. ff. 2. 133 x 97mm. Giacomo Leopardi, poet: ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVIII. John Locke; Latin epitaph on Descartes; n.d. Fair copy. Accompanied by an engraving of Descartes by J. B. Grateloup after F. Hals. ff. 4. 271 x 212mm. overall. Epitaph (f. 4) 94 x 75mm; engraving (f. 2 pasted down) 103 x 72mm. includes: f. 2 Jean Baptis...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXIX. Louis XVI: Decree to the Assemblée Législative; 1791 (see f. 1). French. ff. 2. 230 x 187mm. Louis XVI of France: Decree to the Assemblée Législative from Louis: 1791: Fr: Autogr.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXX. Stéphane Mallarmé: sonnet 'La chevelure vol d'une flamme à l'extrême'; circa 1887. Fair copy. French. See S. Mallarmé, Oeuvres Complètes, ed. H. Mondor and G. Jean-Aubry (Paris, 1945), p. 53. f. 1. 230 x 187mm. Poetry FRENCH: Stéphane Mallarmé, poet: Sonnet...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXI. Marie Antoinette: letter, with seal, to Count Rosenberg; [1775]. French. ff. 2. 189 x 146mm. Louis XVI of France; Marie Antoinette: Count Rosenberg: Letter to Count — Rosenberg from Marie Antoinette: [1775]: Fr.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXII. Thomas Moore: poem 'The Last Rose of Summer'; circa 1813. Fair copy. See The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq., (Paris: Galignani, 1820), vol. iv, pp. 121-122. ff. 2. 199 x 165mm. Poetry ENGLISH: Thomas Moore, poet: Poem 'The Last Rose of Summer' by Thomas Moor...