COMMONPLACE BOOK. [A manuscript commonplace book. N.p.:] 1807. 112pp.

COMMONPLACE BOOK. [A manuscript commonplace book. N.p.:] 1807. 112pp., manuscript, 8vo (229 x 179mm.) 56 leaves of hand-written entries in a single mostly legible hand of numerous 18th and early 19th century poets including Charlotte Smith, Samuel Rogers and many sonnets by John Codrington Bampfylde. (Toning.) Contemporary half red morocco (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Mary Lismoose[?] (ink name to front endpaper, dated 1807). – And a further volume (a manuscript commonplace book which includes a copy of Lord Byron’s ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’, [circa 1811], 8vo) (2).

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