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Record 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, workmates)
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
  Author: 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. ,

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://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6175, accessed: 18 April 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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