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Record Number: 6175


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia]: 4 lines of ms notes on the binding page are now rubbed and difficult to decipher but appear to be notes of references to specific pages eg ;'joys 96, 95-6 to the end'.

Century:

1700-1799, 1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

George Burder

Title:

Early piety: or, memoirs of children eminently serious. Interspersed with familiar dialogues, emblematical pictures, prayers, graces and hymns. Recommended by the Rev. Mr. Peckwell

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

The fourth edition, enlarged and improved, London: M. Trapp, 1793

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

6175

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Burder, George, "Early piety: or, memoirs of children eminently serious. Interspersed with familiar dialogues, emblematical pictures, prayers, graces and hymns. Recommended by the Rev. Mr. Peckwell" (London, 1793), binding page, DH LIB 1502.

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Burder, George, "Early piety: or, memoirs of children eminently serious. Interspersed with familiar dialogues, emblematical pictures, prayers, graces and hymns. Recommended by the Rev. Mr. Peckwell" (London, 1793), binding page, DH LIB 1502. , http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6175, accessed: 19 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Unlike many of the other books in the Dunimarle Library, this has no provenance of either a family member or of a previous owner but the notes were probably made some time between 1793 and the late 19th century.

   
   
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