• Golden Precepts ... [copy book].

Created:
  • 1776-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1776
Collections:
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/wh247146p
Title:
  • Golden Precepts ... [copy book].
Language:
  • English
Call number:
  • Manuscripts / Box 1 34370
Extent:
  • [26] manuscript pages, headings in red and blue ; 19.1 cm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • "Education. Look catious [sic] round your Genius nicely know / And mark how far its utmost Stretch will go...".
  • Insc at head "Holbrook 1776" and lettered "Samuel Holbrook 1776" with flourishes on inner margin of upper wrap.
  • Insc inside lower wrap "Samuel Holbrook Junr Boston Sep.r 13 1776" with other dated inscriptions, one enclosed by ornamental drawing of swan [?].
  • The engraved illustration on the front wrapper depicts stag attacking a man and his companion.
  • foxed, waterstained, pages frayed and brittle. split along back fold, pages loose. 2 leaves split horizontally.
Publisher:
  • Hartford, 1776.
Subject:
  • Penmanship
  • Copybooks
Range label:
  • Logical
Creator:
  • Holbrook, Samuel
Author:
  • Holbrook, Samuel
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Binding note:
  • Buff engraved pictorial wrappers laid in archival folder.
Location:
  • Special Collections Manuscripts / Box 1 34370
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