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Full title: A Table of the duties of customs on articles usually imported by passengers, with sundry miscellaneouse information for the use of persons arriving from the continent; with the prohibitions and restrictions on certain articles, and an abstract of revenue and other regulations in force appertaining thereto; together with the duties on similar articles imported into France and Belgium. By Robert Cox, Searcher, Landing and Coastwaiter, to his Majesty's Customs, and Principal Inspecting Officer of the Steam-Packet Baggage Department in London. Published by Charles Knight, 22 Ludgate Street, London.

'cir 1837' written at the bottom of the front cover in pencil. 'John Wordsworth, Trin. Coll. Camb.' in ink at top of front cover.

Notes made by John Wordsworth in relation to A Handbook for travellers on the Continent : being a guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland..., first edition published by John Murray & Son, London 1936, after a tour of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in Jul.-Sept. 1837.

Comments, with relevant page references, on inns and hotels, transport, places and sights of interest etc. Wordsworth complains (pp. 6-7) about being detained at Malmedy 'till our carriage and every article it contained had been most carefully searched by a rude barbarian who stormed and threatened us, for not declaring two or three trifling articles of Spa manufacture, which we did not know were subject to duty. This is the only time that I ever remember to have been rudely treated by any Prussian officer of Police or Customs'

Small amount of repetition of material from p 5 to p. 9 (notes on Thorwaldsen's statue of Gutemberg at Mainz, etc); portion on p. 9 crossed through.

MS note on inside front cover, 'J. Wordsworth Trin. Coll Camb. 1833'; similar note inside back cover. List of contents on verso of front free endpaper, along with a long note on how to refer to this volume. Margin drawn on left hand side of each page, with annotations occasionally added here.

The contents list names the following writers or sections: Milton; Shakespeare; Collins; 'Moore's Lallah Rookh'; Cowley; Beaumont & Fletcher; 'Miscellanea'; 'Hazlitt's British Poets - Spenser'; Drayton; Daniel; Suckling; Wither; Marvell; 'Epigrams'; 'Wordsworth's Sonnets'; Philip van Artevelde; Talfour; 'Rev'd Wm Grave'; Philips; Campbell; Basil Montagu; 'Davis's Travels'; 'Guide to domestic happiness'; 'Moore's Life of Sheridan'; Burns; 'Mansel's Epigrams'; 'Pope's Epigrams'; 'Sir Ed. Coke's and Sir Wm Jones' rules for distribution of time'.

Five sheets, seemingly removed from a similar volume, loose inside, the first sheet headed 'Commonplace book for 1828. Extracts from Modern poets fugitive verses. Cowley's Essays. Byron Milton -'; there are also extracts from Shakespeare.

MS note on inside front cover, 'J. Wordsworth Trin. Coll Camb'; similar note inside back cover. List of contents on verso of front free endpaper, along with a note on how to refer to this volume. Notes to self on facing page on how to keep the book, on the separation of English and foreign authors in commonplace books etc.

The contents list names the following writers or sections, with page numbers: 'La Henriade' [Voltaire]; 'List of the most eminent French poets'; 'Miscellaneous Verse'; 'Miscellaneous Prose'; 'Memoires de Sully'; 'Cardinal de Retz's Memoirs'; 'Caractères de la Bruyere'; 'Eloge de Massillon'; 'List of French preacher and divines'; 'Corinne' [de Staël]; 'Contes Moraux de Marmontel'; 'Memoires sur Josephine'; 'Schlegel sur la langue et la literature Provencale'; 'Voltaire. Catalogue des Ecrivains'; 'Montesquieu's letters and discourse'; 'Rousseau'; 'Memorandua of tours upon the continent - French and Italian phrases - Rules for learning foreign languages - Expenses of journeys, times and distances &c &C. Observations on the rules of French and Italian grammar'; List of the most eminent Italian prose writers and poets'; 'List of the most authentic French works relating to the times of Henri IV'

'Index to memoranda of tours on the Continent from July 2nd 1833 to November 19th 1834 and in other years [including visits to Belgium and Germany in 1837]' written on out on p. 242

Margin drawn on left hand side of each page, with annotations frequently added here.

Hawarden - thanks for letter, Greek pun "incomparable", High Stewardship, intends to get the support of [William] Whewell, churchmen cannot be too learned, John Wordsworth ill.

Encloses notes, "the results of my Etymological Speculations".