MISCELLANIES1850
Evelyn's Sculptura
By J. M. (Oxford)
In a copy of Evelyn's *Sculptura*, 3rd edit., with Memoir of the Author's Life, 8vo. London, 1759, I find the following memorandum, in pencil, prefixed to the Memoirs: "By Dr. Warton of Winchester, as he himself informed me in 1785." An autograph resembling "J. Chelmar" is on the fly-leaf. As I do not see this Memoir ascribed to Dr. Warton in any list, to which I have access, of his writings, perhaps the Memoir is not generally, or at all, known to be by him, and I therefore send the memorandum to you to be winnowed in your literary threshing-floor, by those who have better means and more leis…
Topics: Memoir, Literature
Locations: Winchester, London