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Adam Dickson : An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt
Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cross and the marginal comment then arguing a related point - e.g. P.5, in the printed sentence "But whether or not our lands, during the whole of this period, have produced much less than usual, requires very extensive knowledge to determine, more probably, than any private person has any opportunity of acquiring", there is a cross above "private person" and in the RH margin, the marginalia reads "It is not the opinion of a private person. It seems to be the general opinion that there have been seasons of the bad crops for 5 or 6 years." On p.6, in the printed sentence, "Now, when the price of provisions is raised by bad crops, land continues of the same value, and the farmer cannot afford a higher rent," "same" has a cross above it, and the marginalia beside reads "Land can't continue of the same value so long as the crops are bad and the price of provisions is raised thereby and both the value of the land and provisions hightened [sic] still more by the quantity of currency." Further marginalia throughout the text.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Helvetius : A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper
[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin e.g. p.13 Text =: "Is the difference in the minds of men the effect of their different organisations or education? *That is the object of my inquiry". ms note =: "*In part it is, in part it is not"; p. 101 Text = "As long as man * is sensible, he has soul", ms note = "has any feeling" (in ink). P. 30 has a lengthy comment on Milton.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
William Tennant : Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant
[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to show a rather crumpled East India Company employee, feet on table, flask and glass in front and smoking a hookah. (2) ms note follows the end of the dedication "... & guilty of / plagerising; but .../ of the unfortunate case of the/ author whose from this ... / and rather dull he is/ only doomed to oblivion".
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Francis Gladwin : Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin
[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Contents are mainly comments on, or corrections to, the text, including detailed points of grammar e.g. Text = "It is a general rule that the Ghazel do not contain more than twelve distiche; * although some poets formerly made Ghazels of greater length", ms note = "or less than five"; p. 6 Text = "Mo-sum-mut", ms note = "Moosullis"; p. 70 Text = "This [mark] is a conjunction [underlined] occurring in the middle of an hemistich, * when it receives the accent of the preceding letter", [whole clause is underlined], ms note = "In summary it is removed & its accent is given to the preceding letter"; the note on p.19 is in Persian.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Hafiz : The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings.
[Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a table with numbers [some form of ms index?], two long ms notes, possibly translations e.g. "In the morning I went to the garden to gather a rose when suddenly the voice of a nightingale struck my ears ...". Also has a printed leaf, possibly from an English periodical and referring to verses in Persian by Sir William Jones, bound in.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
: Javahir at-talif fi navadir at-tasanif = The Asiatick miscellany: consisting of original productions, translations, fugitive pieces, imitations, and extracts from curious publications, Vol.2
[Marginalia]: a single item, within a miscellany, is annotated "The Monody on the death of Mr. Cleveland" pp.146-151. Has marginal marks ie corrections and comments e.g. "whilst" (line 18) is underlined and in the margin in ms is "but"; p. 149 Text = "Mild were his manners, and sincere his heart; Benevolence in every feature shone", ms notes = "his soul sincere" [&] "melancholy marked him for her own. Gray's El.", "*mild were his manners & his heart sincere Congreve ..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Joseph Emin : The life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himself
[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the page is missing.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan Bailey
[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdita' in the margin; p. 479 the text 'Quin etiam blandas movere per aera cauda' is asterixed with in the margin 'In the lioness this is the mark of anger'. The inside back cover has a note in Latin 'posterior .... supe ... mens ... priores' with a sketch of foliage above which may or may not be connected.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Stephen Weston : A specimen of the conformity of the European languages
[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text is annotated in Persian and another is marked * and in the margin is a ms note '*When the sun of the wine arises from east of the goblet a thousand tulips spring from the cheek of the cupbearer'; p.158 has the text 'The lion is a cat in catching a mouse; but the mouse is a tiger in battle' marked * and the ms annotation 'nonsense ', '*The cat is tiger in catching a mouse; but a mouse in the claws of a tiger'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
James Beattie : Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order
[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 after the end of the text is the ms note 'Scotch - Ever so many people/ Eng. a great many people';p. 63 after the text 'The offer is here supposed to be not mine, but made by another' is the ms note 'To look out of the window/ To look out at ---' p. 69 next to the text 'A prospect for the pocket.-A perspective' is the ms note 'a spy-glass'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
James Steuart : An inquiry into the principles of political oeconomy
[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proportion to the plenty of money ...' has a vertical marginal line; p.416 text line 'This reasoning is consistent with the principles we have examined, and humbly rejected in the preceding chapter ...' has the ms note 'Mr Hume's reasoning is correct'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Jean de La Bruyere : Les caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, avec des notes par M. Coste
[Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Louis the Fourteenth Pooh! P...! What a Prostitution of Talents [?] & Truth!' 'Is it that [?] can creep and pride that licks the dust' Two very brief notes on p. 342 and p. 182. Also has marginal marks | and * on various pages.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
John Sinclair : Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair
[Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days into two parts only Morning and Evening - the Scotch divide it into four parts Morning, Forenoon, Afternoon, & Evening'; p. 28 at foot of page 'What like is such a Thing? What appearance has such a thing?'; p.25 at foot of page 'Almost nothing. Hardly anything Ex: His house was burnt down & almost nothing [underlined] was saved & hardly anything [underlined] was saved'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
William Jones : Grammar of the Persian Language, A
[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar or translation, mostly in English but at least one is in Persian (p. 132). Examples: title page "x While the nightingale, oh Hafiz, makes a boast [?] of his eloquence, do thou lessen [?] the value of his life, by singing thy Persian strains" [translation of Persian quote on title page, similarly marked ie 'x'?]; p.100/101 is bookmarked with a scrap of contemporary newspaper and the text line 'By the approach of Spring, and the return of December, the leaves of our life are continually folded' is annotated with underlines and alternative translations above words.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Francois Bernier : History of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol, The
[Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Rajah Rannah". Occasional marks in the margins, usually in the form of an italic N (examples on p. 58, 64, 65 etc) or vertical lines (p. 75 only).
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
John Wheatley : Remarks on currency and commerce
[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of specie, at any given moment [underlined and with the word always in ms above], constitutes the capital, or a portion of the capital of many individuals *...' has ms annotation '*& hence certainly of the nation; a conclusion directly contrary to his position p.3. The function of currency is neither more nor less than the barter of one commodity for another'; p. 20 The first 2 complete paras are marked with vertical lines and have the ms annotation 'extremely inaccurate to calculate our resources from this particular branch of trade'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
William Jones : Poeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo Jones
[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight points or sections of interest - usually points of translation - with ms notes, usually in English but some in Persian (ex. p. 436/7) in the margins: eg. p. 301 text = 'Alii in collibus congregati sunt, alii in vallibus', has ms note = 'incorrect in the original as well as in the translation'; p. 381 a line of Persian is marked and in the margin is the translation 'In battle he is a lion-fighting dragon'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Horace : Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana
[Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These may or may not be related to the text. On various pages there are ink marks within the text, all of the same format, ex. p. 84 '- - |-vv-|-vv-|vv/--|-vv-|vv [with the numbers]123/4 [to the right]'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Bernard de Montfaucon : Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys,
[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from the 1st volume of Voyages et Recherches dans la Grece par le Chev.er P.O. Brondsted de l'Ile de Ceos'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Andrew Fuller : An apology for the late Christian missions to India
[Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleric and titled 'Brother Carey' [ie William Carey orientalist and missionary?] and with the inscription 'Had much enjoyment today wrestling with G..d! [deleted]'. A further inscription is illegible.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
John Richardson : Grammar of the Arabick language in which the rules are illustrated by authorities from the best writers; principally adapted for the service of the Honourable East India Company
[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points of grammar or translation: e.g p.8 the text 'eight dentals ....[arabic text]; and six linguals, ....[Arabic text]' is underlined and marked +. There is a ms note '++Solar [?] letter before which ...[arabic letter] in the article[?] loses its sound and the .... is ....'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Niccolo Machiavelli : The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans ....
[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin example(1) p.542 (v.1. The Prince chpt. VI) against the footnote "r" on religion and armed conflict is the marginal note "NB The hindoo religion refutes Machiavel's position"; (2)p. 690 (v.1. The Prince chpt XXV) has the marginal note "his Majesty first defined the word chance or fortune" against the translator's note "o".
