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EARLY VALENTINE
A hand-coloured engraved letter valentine with printed verse 'Beneath the rose there you will find A pleasing subject to your mind, See virtuous Courtship, calm repose, It's Innocent yet, under the Rose', the overlay decorated with a hand-coloured rose with printed verse 'The happy couple Under the rose', lifting to reveal a hand-coloured vignette of a couple embracing in a landscape with a church beyond, with a 2pp. manuscript poem inside, postmarked February 14th, 1817, 7 x 9in.
A hand-coloured engraved letter valentine with printed verse 'Beneath the rose there you will find A pleasing subject to your mind, See virtuous Courtship, calm repose, It's Innocent yet, under the Rose', the overlay decorated with a hand-coloured rose with printed verse 'The happy couple Under the rose', lifting to reveal a hand-coloured vignette of a couple embracing in a landscape with a church beyond, with a 2pp. manuscript poem inside, postmarked February 14th, 1817, 7 x 9in.