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Commonplace book : autograph manuscript, London, 1785-1820.

BIB_ID
193382
Accession number
MA 4960
Creator
Hibbert, George, 1757-1837.
Display Date
1785-1820.
Credit line
Purchase, Gordon N. Ray Fund; 1994.
Description
1 v. (135 p.) ; 28.2 cm
Notes
Consists of 90 f., blanks from 68r-90r, with an index on f. 90v, and one additional sheet inserted.
With the ticket of Rowe & Waller, Stationers, on the front pastedown.
Summary
Including Hibbert's autograph manuscripts of prologues and epilogues to various plays put on at his home in Clapham. There are also transcriptions of verse and prose pieces by others, including family members and prominent writers such as Fielding, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Byron, Hogg, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and copies of poems by Richard Sharp or Sharpe.