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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.
Reproductions of art works by subject
1893 - 1968
Reproductions of artworks arranged alphabetically subject were presumably kept for reference by Read. Reproductions were made in a range of media, including photographs and prints.
Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.
A description of an annuall world, or, Briefe meditations upon all the holy-daies in the yeere : with certaine briefe poeticall meditations of the day in generall and all the daies in the weeke
Browne, Edward (fl. 1641)
1641
Attributed to Edward Browne. cf. NUC pre-1956. Fully described in Grolier club cat. of early works of English writers from Wither to Pryor, New York, 1905, v. 1, no. 103, p. 96-97 & facsimile facing...
Miscellaneous poems and translations (v.1)
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
1722
Portrait of Pope in v. 1 engraved; title in red and black; head- and tail-pieces. Advertisements: v. 2, 1 p. at front. Vol. 1 includes twenty-one poems by Pope, nine of which are listed on the tit...
Miscellaneous poems and translations (v.2)
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
1722
Portrait of Pope in v. 1 engraved; title in red and black; head- and tail-pieces. Advertisements: v. 2, 1 p. at front. Vol. 1 includes twenty-one poems by Pope, nine of which are listed on the tit...
Collection of poems and songs, most of them apparently by Frederick Forrest or Theodosius Forrest, together with a play, a list of books from a library, and cuttings of published poems
Forrest, Frederick
c.1751-1800
Following three blank leaves, contents are f.4r-v: poem, 'Merit advanced, inscribed to Fredk. Forrest Esq.' signed 'T.S.' or 'T.F.' (perhaps Theodosius Forrest); ff.5r-46r (versos blank): 'The country...