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Robert Burns's Commonplace book, 1783-1785 : reproduced in facsimile from the poet's manuscript in the possession of Sir Alfred Joseph Law, M.P
Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Ewing, James Cameron; Cook, Davidson (1874-1941)
1938
"Limited to four hundred and seventy-five copies of which four hundred and twenty-five are for sale... [etc.]".
Berkeley's commonplace book
Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Johnston, G A (1888-)
1930
"The text of this edition is based on a careful examination of the manuscript (British museum Add. Ms. 39305) by Mr. A. J. Watson."--Editor's pref.
Swattle, and other poems
1723
Manuscript book devoted almost entirely to the long narrative poem 'Swattle', a humorous hudibrastic narrative recounting the life and adventures, largely in Ireland, of a rascally physician Swattle w...
Roger Senhouse, notebooks and literary papers including some letters
Senhouse, Roger (1899-1970)
c.1937-1970
Comprises: (1) 6 autograph manuscript notebooks kept by Roger Senhouse between ca. 1942 and 1962, numbers 1, 3, and 4 being commonplace-books (chiefly containing notes on books and on meetings with ot...
Poetical miscellany, entitled 'Poems, & verses on several occasions, MDCCXXVI'.
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.
Commonplace book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester.
c.1650-c1700
Contains prose, dramatic pieces, and 142 poems, mostly anonymous, but including 10 by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and 17 by Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618). The text was compiled in the second part of...
Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker
Walker, Margaret
1778-1869
At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'M...
Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.
c.1720-1830
Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...
Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.
Marriott, Eliza
c.1740-1804
Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.
Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose
c.1690
Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...
Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.
Lewis family
c.1700-1750
Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.
Commonplace book of English religious poems and prayers
c.1715
Ff.1r-6r (verso blank): miscellaneous notes in Latin and Greek; ff.7r-41r: twenty-four poems on religious subjects, beginning with two by Joseph Addison (from 'The Spectator' 489 and 513) and includin...