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When collecting books is a hobby sometimes you find the unexpected. I found this holograph manuscript poem by Anna Seward written in her hand bound inside a copy of Goethe’s ‘The Sorrows of Werter’ published in 1801. The book is embossed with Scottish publisher Archibald Constable’s seal (a repost).

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The book with Archibald Constable’s embossed family seal. After Walter Scott (I’m a Yank, no “Sir” required) refused to publish her letters, Constable published them in 1811. 💙📚

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