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Pope, Alexander2
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)2
Browne, Edward (1641-)1
Forrest, Frederick1
Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)1
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BC MS Lt 103, f. 13r: The opening of
Archive Item

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.

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Cecil Day Lewis

1932-1952

Advice on writing and criticism of various poems by Berry.

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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.

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BC MS Lt 100, f. 15r: The opening of
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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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BC MS Lt 75, f. 9r: Frederick Forrest's song
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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...

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