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Lot 368
Smart, Jane. The Stream of Time: A Chronological Arrangement of History By Miss Smart
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(The Christian Lady's Magazine, 1837), being a broadside laid to linen, approximately 9 feet long x 15 in. wide on a wooden roller; the whole of history, ecumenical and secular, is presented on either side of a great meandering stream, the back of the linen is affixed with a manuscript presentation panel, reading: "Uncle Henry Bardwell was a Deserter and very strict in his Religious opinions He gave me this chart in 184_ when leaving him and I never saw him afterward he dying soon after - My Mother's folk were of the Church of England. My Father John Fey Bardwell being a Free thinker and was as honest and as upright a man as ever lived generous and open hearted to a fault, His memory is ever graced in my recollection. He was open handed to his friend and companions who lived on him and his recollections to me is sacred and second only to the ---?---- This chart I send and make a present to Kate Post./ July 1st 1893 Fey Bardwell."

Considerable browning, chips, and losses. Fair condition.