Extracts from the rules of the reading society.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subscription libraries--England--Early works to 1800.

Subscription libraries.

Books and reading--England--Early works to 1800.

Books and reading.

England.

Genre:

Forms (documents)

Early works.

Blank forms -- England -- Taunton -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 leaf ; 20 x 25 cm

Fingerprint:

t.x- f.ll ntit ano- (S) 1790 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Taunton?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1790-1798]

Notes:

Caption title.

Unfinished date ("179[blank]") on line 2 of text of right-hand column; earliest date supplied in ms., beside name of Mr. Pinchard, is December 8, 1798.

Broadside (oblong with vertical chain lines), printed in 2 columns.

Names of members: Mr. Speediman, Mr. Jeffries, Cap. Clitsome, Mr. Badcock, Cap. Smith, Mr. Woodforde, Mr. Bryant, Mr. Laurent, Mr. Beadon, Rev. A. Foster, Mr. Pinchard, Mr. Blundell, Mr. S. Norman, Rev. F. Clapp, Rev. D. Webber, Rev. B. Bluett, Mr. Bluett, Mr. T. Coles, Miss Norman, Dr. Metford, Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Buncombe, Major Whitmash.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Penn Libraries copy: 2 dates and one cross supplied in ms. beneath the word "Received." (to the left of printed members' names) in right-hand column; 21 dates between 1798 and 1800 supplied in ms. beneath the word "Delivered." (to the right of printed members' names) in right-hand column.

Penn Libraries copy: small hole in lower portion of right-hand column with no loss of text; remains of 2 red circular adhesions on blank reverse of sheet.

"Reproducing a selection of rules together with a printed record of [23] members, this printed sheet was once pasted inside the covers of a book that was circulated amongst the members of a provincial reading society ... From the reference to the 'market-house' and the names of the members it seems likely that this reading society was based in Taunton in Somerset ..."--Bookseller's description accompanying Penn Libraries copy.

Cited in:

ESTC, N507316

OCLC:

674567192