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Title: Annotations in Flosculum poeticum.
Alternative Title: Flosculum poeticum. London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley ..., 1684.
Creator: Vernon, Thomas.
Ker, Patrick, active 1691
Contributor: Miller, William Henry, 1789-1848, former owner.
Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: about [1737?]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations by Thomas Vernon in his 1684 copy of Patrick Ker's Flosculum poeticum. Most annotations consist of the initials "TV" after poems, but Vernon has also drawn decorations in the margins and written comments on various poems (such as "true" or in one case, "hah hah). Many pages also have short observations about others and their homes written in Vernon's hand but in a different, very faded ink.
Condition: Bound in old calf.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Poems--England--17th century.
Annotations (Provenance)--England--18th century.
Extent: [10], 88, [2] pages, bound ; 17 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n11603
PR3539 .K25 F6 *
Language: English
Subject: Ker, Patrick, active 1691.--Flosculum poeticum.--1684.
Place: England--Surrey--Epsom.
Provenance: Modern pencil notation on front paste-down endpaper: "From the Britwell Court Library." Note on exposed wooden board behind front paste-down: "Braudy II sale 1808, /c&p/, Heber 1305 with another --"; this note is transcribed in a later hand on the first preliminary page. "Tho: Vernon, Dec: 21 1703" written in a drawing of a monument topped with the words Epsom and Hoe, and (in same hand) a verse dated "11th March 1752" all inscribed on page facing title page. "Thomas Vernon his book 1737" followed by "James Harfeld?" (which is crossed out) at the bottom of page 11.
Location: CLUW

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