[Commonplace book], 1750

Description

Title: [Commonplace book], 1750
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Abstract: Manuscript, in Horace Walpole's hand, containing his notes from Pierre Bayle's A general dictionary, historical and critical. Some leaves have been torn out from the front; final page of notes on back pastedown
Description: In English.
Binding: half calf, marbled papter boards; "Commonplace" in ms. on spine.
With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP1) on fron pastedown along the date and his signature: "H. Walpole 1750."
Press-mark L.1.2 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis, July 1948. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 191 to Thorpe, £5.5.0.
Extent: 1 20 cm. v. (53 p.) ;
Language: English

Genre: Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Commonplace books
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706
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Citation: Horace Walpole, Commonplace Book. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.