Commonplace Book

Commonplace book, with numerous entries by other hands: probably begun by its Compiler in his youth, and considerably added to in his old age. There are a few medical and household receipts, but most of the entries are on moral and literary subjects, extracts, quotations, etc.

c.1850-1920.

86 ll. + 168 bl. ll. 4to. 251/2 x 20 cm. Original half-tooled-calf binding, badly rubbed.

Presented 1926.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).