Lot 177
Potenger, John (1647-1733) of Winchester, Legal official and writer
£1,900
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Unpublished manuscript: "A Collection of Miscellanies in Prose and verse", small quarto, contemporary vellum backed marbled boards, pp. [4], 218. [?1730], containing 26 pieces, half verse, half prose, one gathering loose, covers rubbed
Footnote
Note: John Potenger matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 26 May 1664, & spent his career in government legal posts. Potenger's major published work was "A pastoral Reflection on Death" (1691), and his translations from Latin appeared in Nahum Tate's miscellany (1685) and in the Dryden-Tonson second miscellany (1685).
