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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		" ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigraph from Milton on the title page, right after the a...anon Jonathan EdwardsDissertation Concerning Liberty and NecessityPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, on margin of his copy of Johann Lavater, Aphorisms: "'I hop no one will call what I have written cavilling ... For I write from the warmth of my heart, & c...William Blake Johann LavaterAphorismsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge, annotation to Schelling: "'A book, I value, I reason & quarrel with as with myself when I am reasoning.'"Samuel Taylor Coleridge F. W. J. von Schelling Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'"William Blake Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ide...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake Francis BaconThe Advancement of LearningPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake Sir Joshua ReynoldsWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Coleridge's many notes to Jeremy Taylor's Polemicall Discourses include some addressed to the author directly ('A sophism, dearest Jeremy!'); some to the owner of the vo...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorPolemicall DiscoursesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Nathaniel WraxallHistorical Memoirs of My Own TimePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziAnecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Samuel JohnsonLettersUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziRetrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking an...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziObservationsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Fulke Greville's copy of Boswell [Life of Johnson] stands out among individual copies annotated by readers who had known Boswell or Johnson or other members of their cir...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader, referred to in annotations as "Mr L", known to be ...Mr L. James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and insertions, by readers: "'I almost ridiculed the idea ...Thomas Frognall Dibdin Illustrated ChattertonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson discusses John Horseman's annotations to, and insertions in, his first edition copy of William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights ...John Horseman William GodwinMemoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Righ...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a french has/ very often more than/forty"; (2) "The Engl...Miss Erskine Robert LowthA short introduction to English grammar: with crit...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task.Anna Seward William CowperThe TaskPrint: Book


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