A mid-19th c manuscript notebook, tipped-in and inscribed ph...

Hammer

£120

A mid-19th c manuscript notebook, tipped-in and inscribed pharmacopoeia receipts for cough medicines and dealing with rheumatism, loosely-inserted letterpress receipt: A Certain Cure for an Inveterate Cough, notes on scrofula, aka the 'Kings Evil', choler, others, biblical and devotional notes and commentary, some prayers, further typically inscribed with commonplace verse and maxims, including lines On the late W Hancock of Nottingham/Died 1805, loosely-inserted and tipped-in Victorian mourning cards, disbound contemporary sheep, perished spine, 8vo, Westmorland, a mid-18th c commonplace book, [15]ff only of manuscript and printed leaves viz. to the antiquities, history, topography, and ancient families of the county, interleaved blank leaves throughout, contemporary reverse calf, blind-rolled, chased clasps, chipped with some losses and movement, red-speckled edges, 8vo, The Polite Remembrancer, for 1797, kept and annotated by a Miss Ann Maria Langton, inscribed with her daily engagements, including walking to and/or taking tea at Wanley Hall, [?Leicestershire], some accounts, including for silk and the binding of her shoes, some entries blank, the 'diary' prefixed with a printed almanac as issued, original limp green morocco gilt, contemporary ticket to pastedown: J. New, Stationer, No. 8 Aldgate, 12mo, [&] The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas For the Year 1811, partially-inscribed, some torn losses, the internal sleeve with some loosely-inserted contemporaneous and later ephemera, including pencil sketches and University of Oxford papers, contemporary limp morocco, restrained by a white metal clasp, all edges gilt, marbled edges, contemporary ticket to pastedown: Staunton & Son, Stationers and Booksellers, 474 Strand, 12mo, (4) 


Provenance: 2nd: Edmond Lamplugh Irton (1761-1820), of Irton Hall, Cumbria; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, below a note citing the College of Arms. Presumably sold at the dispersal of his "fine library" at Irton, c. 1853.