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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'In the 4th ed. [of [italics]A Tour through Italy[end italics], [italics]A Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII[end italics], 4 vols. (London, 1817) [...] [John Chet...Felicia Hemans John Chetwode EustaceA Classical Tour of Italy, An. MDCCCII (vol.1)Print: Book
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1850-1899		[Annotation]: Beside the printed words 'Just Publish'd', Peter Cunningham has added '(1744)' and [? - semi-legible - 'To Night 6' followed by [legible] '& Night-Thoughts...Peter Cunningham A Collection of Fifty Old PlaysPrint: Advertisement
1700-1799'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & ...Joseph Hunter Robert Dodsley (editor)A Collection of Poems in Six VolumesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorA collection of polemical discoursesPrint: Book
1600-1699'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'Samuel Pepys Jeremy TaylorA collection of polemical discourses, wherein the ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John AsgillA Collection of TractsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John AsgillA Collection of TractsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, supposing the author who speaks of ten numbers and g...Joseph Banks Rene Augustin Constantin de RennevilleA collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch Ea...Print: Book
1900-1945'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...] But in the introspective silence that came over...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA CommentaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Glanced over Pye's "Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics"...'Thomas Green Henry James PyeA Commentary illustrating the Poetic of AristotlePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last section on the influence of religion; that on taste; and t...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John GregoryA comparative view of the state and faculties of m...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: two ms notes, one opp. to: "Joannes Marshall scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecimo die Aprilis 1729. Finivi librum nonodecimo die Jun...David Marshall Andrew Birnie of SalineA compend or abreviat of the most important ordina...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonA Complete Collection of the Historical, Political...Print: Book
1900-1945'He handed me over Crusius' Lexicon and, having told me to go through again as much as I could of what he had done, left the room. It seems an odd method of teaching, b...Clive Staples Lewis Gottlieb Christian CrusiusA Complete Greek and English Lexicon for the Poems...Print: Book
1700-1799"Thomas Gray's copy of William Verral's Complete System of Cookery contains several marks and additions, allegedly in Gray's hand [including records of success or failure...Thomas Gray William VerralA Complete System of CookeryPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogethe...Samuel Pepys [Samuel] [Newman]A concordance to the Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 14 lines of praise. Joseph Conrad Sara Morgan Dawson A Confederate Girl's DiaryManuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text)
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William WallA Conference between Two Men that had Doubts about...Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'A Conservative Song, to the tune of "There's nae luck about the House"', beginning 'How happy ... Anon. TraditionalA Conservative SongPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 mo. Price 5/-, 5th editionAnne Lister Anthony Todd ThomsonA conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the LondonPrint: Book


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