Item 33 - Memoirs of Benjamin Starkey

1 volume (33 x 20 cm), containing 45 leaves. Folios 4, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, and 37 are documents bound into the book. Folios 5r, 7r, 8r, 9r, 11r, 12r, 13v, and 14r have documents pasted to them. Folios 15–20 and 39–43 have printed leaves or cuttings mounted on them, the sheets being inserted into spaces cut out of the leaves. The remaining leaves are blank. Half-bound.

On the recto of the first flyleaf is written ‘J Moore’. Inside the front cover are written in pencil, probably by a bookseller or auctioneer, ‘34’ and ‘Starkey’. The armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe, is pasted be-low.

See the separate descriptions of the contents. On the spine is stamped: ‘Life of Captain Starkey.—The Original M.S.’

Foliated 1–45.

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Benjamin Starkey, Memoirs of the Life of Benj. Starkey, late of London but now an inmate of the Freemen’s Hospital in Newcastle, written by himself (1818)