Item 596 - Commonplace book of Sir William Owen

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/596

Title

Commonplace book of Sir William Owen

Date(s)

  • [c 1784-1839] (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 vol., quarto (270 x 220 x 20 mm); [2, title and index], 115 text pages on 59 leaves.

Context area

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Purchased from Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd., Feb. 2019.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Manuscript entitled 'A Common-Place Book, after the Plan recommended by Mr. Locke'. Written below this, 'The Collection was commenced at an early Age, and consequently in the first Pages many Things are inserted, which might as well, and without anyread more

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