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Record Number: 3455


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in pencil, 'Dodsley', underlined.

Century:

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

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:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

A Proposal

Genre:

Ephemera, Advertisement for subscribers

Form of Text:

Print: Advertisement

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

3455

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Peter Cunningham

Title:

Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers

Location:

National Library of Scotland

Call No:

John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E)

Page/Folio:

n/a

Citation:

Peter Cunningham, Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers National Library of Scotland, p. John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3455, accessed: 20 April 2024


Additional Comments:

The NLS was, at the time of writing, in the process of recataloguing the John Murray archive. MS call numbers should therefore be carefully checked at source. This loose leaf is in a folder in the John Murray Archive, of Cunningham's working notes.

   
   
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