Two volumes of sermons by Thomas Townson, annotated by John Jebb, with the bookplate of Thomas Jeston White

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. th. c. 95-6
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18th century
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Two volumes of sermons by Thomas Townson, 1761-89, with notes of dates and places preached, collected and annotated by John Jebb, Bishop of Limerick, and published as Practical Discourses (London, 1830)

Administrative / Biographical History

John Jebb (1775-1833) was Bishop of Limerick. See the Dictionary of National Biography for further details.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

Bought from Thorntons of Oxford (not a catalogue), with MS. Eng. lett. c. 590, fols. 141-6, 1977.

Note

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Custodial History

Bookplate of Thomas Jeston White; bought by 'A.B.R.' from Halls Bookshop, Tunbridge Wells, 1973

Bibliography

See scope and content.