Pickering Borrows a Pynson
Autograph Letter, signed (“T.F. Dibdin”), to Francis Freeling.
June 3, 1811.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
1 p. pen and ink on paper, docketed. 1 vols. 4to. Pickering Borrows a Pynson. Remnants of prior mounting on verso, creased.
Item #261859
"I shall be particularily obliged by the loan of your Pynson's Calendar of Shepherds for 2 or 3 days. I am at this moment entering very deeply upon the subject; which after all, seems to defy the most sagacious bibliographical criticism. The bearer will take great care of it; and it shall be returned in the course of the week …”
Freeling (1764-1836) was a noted book collector and, with Dibdin, one of the founders of the Roxburghe Club.
