[Commonplace book], 1750Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797engManuscript, 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 pastedownIn 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.