Frontispiece wanting. Title-page slightly mutilated and mounted. Since the frontispiece is wanting, it is not clear whether it was the first leaf of gathering A, or whether A1 was blank and is wanting. and Signatures: A-K6.
Manuscript commonplace book with sections treating geometry, trigonometry, surveying, clock making, violin making, and gilding, as well as receipts for varnish, medicines, "secret writing" and inks, a number of conjuring tricks and slights of hand, and methods of hunting, painting, and casting horoscopes. The last few pages, in other hands, contain a register of births and deaths in the Clough family from 1770 through 1840
Description:
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Subject (Topic):
Magic tricks, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Medicine, and Varnish and varnishing
