A. W. Turner Collection. Commonplace book of Edward Copeman containing medical formulae and recipes; 1826. Paper; ff. xx. 120 x 180mm. Commonplace Books: Edward Copeman: Commonplace book of Edward Copeman: 1826.
A collection of miscellaneous manuscripts, chiefly commonplace books and notebooks but including other items, owned by Mr A. W. Turner of Brighton, a collector of pictures, printed books and manuscripts; 1663-1925, n.d. On Turner’s death, Perry’s Auctioneers and Valuers of Brighton was instruct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Portuguese
A. W. Turner Collection. Commonplace book containing anecdotes and stories relating to famous men such as Mr Garrick, King Theodore of Corsica, and Pope Clement XIV, and verse; circa 1810. Faint pencil title ‘Encyclopaedia of Wit’ on opening page. Bookplate of the Corsar family of Forfarshire,...
A. W. Turner Collection. Literary notebook containing ‘The Welch Cottagers or Little Nancy’, ‘Albert or the Penitent Hermit’, and verse; 1803. Possibly Catherine Isabella Eden (d. 1810), daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland and wife of Nicholas Vansittart, Lord Bexley. Partly Italian. ...
A. W. Turner Collection. Text of, and commentary on, certain statutes of the realm from Magna Carta to Henry VIII; 19th cent. Anonymous. Paper; ff. xx. 205 x 250mm.
A. W. Turner Collection. Papers relating to the Rev. Edward W. Grinfield (b. 1785, d. 1864), of Brighton; 1864-1865, n.d. Partly printed. Contents: 1. Catalogue of the Library of the Rev. Edward W. Grinfield. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge sale catalogue; 1865. Printed with MS annotations. ...
A. W. Turner Collection. ‘Miscellaneous Compositions, Yarmouth 1820’, by ‘E[dward].B.P.’, inscribed to the memory of the poet Henry Kirke White (b. 1785, d. 1806); 1817-1824. Contains verse, and letters on religious subjects to Edward J. Hazard and Rev. M. A. Creak. Also contains a daily table...
‘The Sunshine and Shadows of a Heart’; 1853. Adelaide Glascock: Annie Glascock: Literary notebooks of Adelaide Glascock dedicated to her mother, Annie: 1853-1855.