Text set / [Register of lending library at Royton Hall].

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Title: [Register of lending library at Royton Hall].
Creator: Radcliffe, Joseph, Sir, 1744-1819.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1763-1833]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume containing the register of loans made from the library at Royton Hall, Lancashire, mostly written in the hand of Sir Joseph Radcliffe. The volume also contains several pages of recipes for cloth dyes, probably in the hand of Radcliffe's wife, Katherine Percival, and 27 pages of material about the enclosure of Oldham Common.
Condition: Bound in original calf, marked, rear joint cracking.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Notebooks
Extent: [136] p., bound ;16.5 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n19p59
MS.2013.014
Language: English
eng
Subject: Private libraries--England--18th century.
Library circulation and loans--England--18th century.
Commons--England--18th century.
Place: England--Greater Manchester--Oldham Royton
Provenance: Ownership inscription "Kitty Percival" on back free endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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