Pièce 12.6 - Notebook kept by John Wordsworth: 'English Verse Modern Common Place book'

1 vol., c 257 x 215 x 25 mm. Paginated 1-[340], remaining few pages blank (pagination includes two pages numbered 19, and a switch from numbering rectos with an odd number - pp 29, 31 - to an even number - pp. 32, 34 etc.

5 single sheets loose between pp. 222-224; one unpaginated, the others with the page numbers 3, 23, 25 and 27.

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.

Add. MS a. 803: Notebook kept by John Wordsworth with transcriptions of passages from Greek and Latin prose and verse, 1825-1832.