Evidence: | [Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into inside back cover with some notes eg "'ong gloves 2-16'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1816 and 1817 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Magdalene Erskine |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1787 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Daughter of Scottish landowning family |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Identification of the reader from provenance |
Author: | Bernard de Montfaucon |
Title: | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | New edition enlarged and improved, London: Printed for Samuel Leigh by W. Clowes, 1814 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 7474 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Planta, Edward, "A new picture of Paris; or, The stranger's guide to the French metropolis; ? to which is added, a description of the environs of Paris, with correct maps and an accurate plan of the city" (London, 1814), various pp, [DH LIB 1234]., |
Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Planta, Edward, "A new picture of Paris; or, The stranger's guide to the French metropolis; ? to which is added, a description of the environs of Paris, with correct maps and an accurate plan of the city" (London, 1814), various pp, [DH LIB 1234]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7474, accessed: 27 April 2024 |
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