$4,300
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
London and Bury St. Edmunds, 1794. In two volumes. Second edition. 4to. (i)-viii, (1)-629, [3]; (ii), (1)-336, [4]pp. +3 maps. Presentation copy with an unpublished, two-page manuscript poem in 38 lines of rhyming couplets on a front blank, dedicated to "Miss Plampin from the author." Illustrated with three folding maps bound in the first volume. Contemporary gilt-paneled straight-grain crimson morocco, gilt-scrolled inner panels with gilt foliate corners, gilt-decorated edges, spine compartments, and dentelles, all edges gilt, with dark green morocco spine labels and marbled endpapers; corners bumped, joints and spine ends slightly rubbed, maps lightly toned with minor offsetting and scattered foxing, and with a few closed tears. With the armorial book-plate of Hasted on front paste-downs and later book-plate of Mary Bryant Sprague on rear paste-downs in each volume. [Goldsmiths' 15937]; [Kress B.2872] This second edition of Young's Travels is widely considered the best contemporary account of France just before the Revolution.
The fact of Young's correspondence with Elizabeth F. Plampin is recorded by DNB and other sources as beginning in 1785, ten years before her marriage to Orbell Ray Oakes, but none of their correspondence before 1795 is recorded. The daughter of John Plampin of Chadacre Hall, Plampin was reputed for her beauty, inspiring Young's verses," 'Tis not to charms that seem with heav'n to vie/Nor to the fires that kindle in your eye/Nor to a form where all the graces play/And soft enchantment bears Elysian sway/..."