Item 12.8 - Notebook kept by John Wordsworth: 'Rome. Plan for Sonnets, Topography etc'

1 vol., c. 220 x 160 x 33 mm. Pages numbered 2-34; two pages numbered 42; no pp. 57-58, 122-123, 212-123; pages numbered 52.4-52.16 (plus 4 blank ff), 110.3-110.26, 189.3-189.21 bound into main sequence; 8 unnumbered ff. bound in between pp. 272-274. 1 folded sheet, printed, pasted to inside front cover.

Printed leaflet for Messrs Freeborn & Co., 7 Via Condotti, Rome, 'Agents for Packing and forwarding Works of Art, Books and other effects...' pasted inside front cover; includes tariff rates for Rome to London, and a list of duties payable in London 'upon the importation of works of art, curiousities, &c. &c. from the Continent'.

Notes by Wordsworth under headings such as 'Preliminary memoranda', p.1; 'Remarks on the Construction of a Sonnet' p.2; 'Books to be consulted on writing a series of sonnets entitled 'Sketches from Roman History, and memorials of a visit to Rome', p. 20; 'Historical Subjects', p. 54; 'Memoranda during a visit to Rome', p 71; 'Architectural Terms', p. 101; 'Terms of Painting' , p. 134.

Includes journal entries, quotations from books, records of inscriptions etc.

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