Poems by various authors collected by J.B. [John Brewster] [manuscript], ca. 1770-ca.1810.
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Poems by various authors collected by J.B. [John Brewster] [manuscript], ca. 1770-ca.1810.
Description
1 v. ; 20 x 17 cm
Associated name
Brewster, John, 1753-1842, compiler.
Summary
A collection containing both poetry and prose. An "Epitaph on Mrs. Hoare in Stockton Church" (p. 39) and "Collections respecting the parish of Stockton from the Parish Register &c." (p. 305-36) are of interest in connection with Brewster, whose name appears in the lists of lecturers and of vicars and who wrote A parochial history of Stockton-on-Tees, 1796; 2nd ed. 1806. (D.N.B. 2nd ed. II, 1211-12)
Binding information
Marbled paper.
Provenance
Bookplate of the compiler engraved when he was a B.A., to which degree he was graduated in 1775. A later bookplate has his M.A. degree (1778) following his name (British museum, Franks coll., I, nos. 3648-49)
Item Details
Call number
M.a.160
Folger accession
cs1176