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Choice observations taken out of severall authors
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Some fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life
Title
Choice observations taken out of severall authors, 1695.
Physical Description
1 v. (99 p.) ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Six additional aphorisms, numbered 468-473, added at the end of the text in a later hand.
Stationer's label on back pastedown: "Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on ye North side of the Royal Exchange London." Date added in manuscript: "1690."
Binding: 17th c. black morocco, elaborately tooled with gilt, red and blue (in "Queens' Binder B" style); remains of clasps. Marbled endpapers.
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Summary
Manuscript on paper, in a single mixed hand, containing a copy of an edition of William Penn's Some Fruits of Solitude. This version has 467 numbered precepts, aphorisms, and moral observations.
Manuscript also contains 5 p. of notes on "soldiery."
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Added to Catalog
August 08, 2005
References
William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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