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Title: Annotations on The lives of the most famous English poets.
Alternative Title: The lives of the most famous English poets. London: Printed by H. Clark, for Samuel Manship at the sign of the Black Bull in Cornhil, 1687.
Creator: Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811.
Winstanley, William,1628?-1698
Contributor: Armour, George Allison, 1855-1936, former owner.
Riviere & Son, bookbinder.
Fenton, Samuel, former owner.
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928, former owner.
Nichols, J. B. (John Bowyer), 1779-1863, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: late 18th century?
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: Interleaved copy of William Winstanley's Lives of the most famous English poets, with annotations throughout by Dr. Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore. Annotations consist of textual notes on the pritned text and include citations of other works as well as commentary and additional biographical information about the figures described.
Condition: Bound in mottled calf with marbled endpapers by Riviere and Son in 1887 (as per note written on a preliminary page by Edmund Gosse).
Type: text
Form/Genre: Bookplates (Provenance)--England--20th century.
Annotations (Provenance)--England--18th century.
Extent: 488 pages, bound ; 21 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n18880
PR3765 .W59 L7 *
Language: English
Subject: Poets, English--Early works to 1800.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.--Lives of the most famous English poets.--1687.
Place: Northern Ireland--County Down--Dromore.
Provenance: Bookplate of Edmund Gosse on front paste-down endpaper and pencil note from Gosse on first blank: "Notes by Bishop Perry. Perfect. Bound by Riviere, July 1887. Given me by George A. Armour, May 1887. EG." Note on second blank in 19th century hand: "The MS. Notes in this Volume are by Dr Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore. J.B. Nichols", which is followed by a pencil note likely in Gosse's hand "In p. 32 is a M.S. note signed 'P.'" and another pencil note in a later hand identifying Nichols's signature. Ownership signature of "Saml Fenton [?]" on title page of printed work.
Location: CLUW

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