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Record Number: 6177


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus some ms notes in ink on binding page. The ink notes read 'Envy-Love 78'; 'Hope - Grief 78'; 'The Deluge 79'; 'Effects of changing weather 80'.

Century:

1700-1799, 1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Fife

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

anon

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

James Thomson

Title:

Seasons, The

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

A new edition, Perth: R. Morison et al , 1794

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

6177

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Thomson, James, "The seasons, by James Thomson ?.", A new edition with Birrell's beautiful print of Lavinia, and other plates. Also an original life of the author, and a critical essay on The seasons by Robert Heron, (Perth 1794), binding page, [DH LIB 1792].

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Thomson, James, "The seasons, by James Thomson ?.", A new edition with Birrell's beautiful print of Lavinia, and other plates. Also an original life of the author, and a critical essay on The seasons by Robert Heron, (Perth 1794), binding page, [DH LIB 1792]. , http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6177, accessed: 29 April 2024


Additional Comments:

In the library of a Scottish landed family but with no provenance. Given the main period of use of the library, the likely period of the annotations is 1794-late nineteenth century.

   
   
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