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    Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles
    ca.1730-1741
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 24
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Coles Benjamin.
    Extent:1 vol. (171 ff.) F.1r, ownership inscription by Coles, 1732. Certain pieces are written in shorthand. Printed text of "The devil of Tinkerton" (Dryden from Chaucer) pasted on f.21r from back. Engraved diagrams pasted on a front and a back flyleaf. Inscription by B. Coles (a nephew) on another front flyleaf. Record of purchase of the volume by R. Brown from Benjamin Coles, 8 August 1754, on another back flyleaf. 19th-century signature "Jas. Langlands" on front pastedown, which also bears ownership address label of Mrs V.J. Dawson, Southam nr. Cheltenham, 14 May 1965. The volume is bound in 18th-century red morocco gilt, but with back board and its flyleaves nearly detached
    Language:English
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    Commonplace book of verse and prose, compiled by Benjamin Coles
    1741
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 53
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Coles Benjamin fl1741.
    Extent:1 vol. (73 ff.) Bound in limp green sheepskin. Autograph. Front endpapers bear Biblical and Latin epigraphs and presentation notes of Benjamin Coles, the compiler and author, to his brother John, Epiphany 1741; recto of the front free endpaper has a table of contents. Rear endpapers have notes on composition, 1 October 1741, by Coles, and ownership marks of the Foster family, Derbyshire, 1780s
    Language:English Latin
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