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• Author/Creator:Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829, author.
  
• Title:The origin of language, and Idea of a perfect government. : Two poetic epistles, to Thamyris.
  
• Publication:[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1785?]
  
• Physical Description:14 pages ; 17 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 496 B85 785
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Title page lacking.
    Bound in brown calf over marbled boards. Portrait engraving of the author pasted onto blank after half-title page; notice of auction of Buchan papers, dated 16 January 1836, glued to front pastedown endpaper. For further information, consult library staff.
    
  • Provenance:Sold at Bonhams Skinner, Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts auction, 3 May 2023, lot 50, to William Reese Company for The Lewis Walpole Library.
    At the top of the half-title page is a presentation inscription "Honble. Horace Walpole from the author"; below the half-title is Walpole's note "by the Earl of Buchan."
    

   
• Notes:Author identified by Horace Walpole in his copy which is inscribed to Horace Walpole and signed "From the author".
  Not in Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library.
  
• Variant and related titles:Idea of a perfect government.
  
• Format:Book
• References:English short title catalogue, N67521
  
• Subjects:Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829, depicted.
  Epistolary poetry, English--Early works to 1800.
  Language and languages--Early works to 1800.
  Political science--Poetry.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Ownership.
  Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Ms. notes.
  Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829--Presentation copy to Horace Walpole.
  Bibliotheca Heberiana--Stamp.
  
• Genre/Form:Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
  Poems.
  
• Also listed under:England--London.