Grose. Title page. Handwritten note.
Dublin Core
Title
Grose. Title page. Handwritten note.
Subject
Early printed books
Title page
Binding
Marginalia
Description
Instructions for binding handwritten in pencil on the title page of A Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches, and Honour, by Francis Grose, Printed for Samuel Hooper (London, 1783). The note reads "Bound in calf - let the edges remain precisely as they are." Also at the top is writing in pen, most of which has been cut off; one phrase reads "Capt Grose."
Creator
Grose, Francis (1731?-1791)
Source
Tisch Special Collections R730.G76 1783
http://library.tufts.edu:80/record=b2630011~S1
http://library.tufts.edu:80/record=b2630011~S1
Publisher
Tufts University. Tisch Library.
Printed for Samuel Hooper (London, 1783)
Date
1783
Contributor
Edward Greenfield Dogget
Hugh Greenfield Dogget
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Format
Image/jpeg
Language
eng
Type
image
Coverage
1783
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
Handwritten note
"Bound in calf - let the edges remain precisely as they are"
"Bound in calf - let the edges remain precisely as they are"
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Grose, Francis (1731?-1791), “Grose. Title page. Handwritten note.,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed November 4, 2025, https://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/299.