Happ iness
Subtitle: a practical poem
By: by George Cumberland.
Contributors: Cumberland, George, 1754-1848.
Series: Blake -- no. 995
Published: 1814
Language: eng
Format: Manuscript
Number of pages: 67
Other titles: Placed under Mr. Banks's fine bust of John Horne Tooke, Esq. -- on his birthday in MDCCCX
Notes: Holograph.

Poem

Poem was begun in early spring, 1802, and finished about a year later in 1803. This copy of the poem and notes was made in or around summer of 1814. Cf. Bentley.

Bound in three-quarter Red morocco, blind stamped but without letters or gilding, over Brown marbled boards, edges gilt, uniform with two other Cumberland manuscripts.

Paper watermarked: HALL 1815 and crown over crest, with hunting-horn (leaves 1 and 64); II and two triangles 1806 (leaves 2, 48, 51, 54, 58, 60); PHIPPS & SON 1812 and crowned medallion with a bearded lion (leaves 3-8, 10-11, 42-47, 49 and 57); G PIKE 1811 and crown over medallion with Britannia (leaves 9, 12-41, 50, 52-53, 55-56, 59 and 61-63). All with vertical chain lines. Cf. Bentley.

Leaves 1, 63-64, the versos of leaves 2, 10, 22, 47-49, 52, and 60; and the rectors of leaves 11 and 23 are blank.

In 1810 Cumberland published lines 573-614 of "Happiness", with two additional lines, in his poem "Placed under Mr. Banks's fine bust of John Horne Tooke, Esq. -- on his birthday in MDCCCX".

"Authors advertizement": p. 1-14 (2nd group).

A note, in Cumblerland's hand, dated "July 1831", on a scrap of paper is laid in.

Bentley, G.E. Bibliography of George Cumberland, p. 98-102.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.