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Commonplace Books (1600-1650)
Grymeston, Elizabeth. Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratiues. Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Felix Norton, 1604.
Hearne, Richard. Ros Cœli. or, a Miscellany of Ejaculations, Divine, Morall, &c. : Being an Extract Out of Divers Worthy Authors, Antient and Moderne. Which May Enrich the Mean Capacity, and Adde Somewhat to the Most Knowing Iudgement. Printed by Richard Herne, 1640.
Fletcher, Phineas. The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man : Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and Other Poeticall Miscellanies. by P.f. Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1633. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020. (link)
Commonplace Books (1651-1700)
Aubrey, John. Miscellanies. Printed for Edward Castle, 1696, catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1430797.html. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020.
Saint-Evremond, and Thomas Brown. Miscellany Essays : Upon Philosophy, History, Poetry, Morality, Humanity, Gallantry &c. Printed for John Everingham and Abell Roper, 1694. INSERT-MISSING-DATABASE-NAME, INSERT-MISSING-URL. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020.
Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding : To Which Are Now First Added, I. an Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. Ii. a Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. Iii. a Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. Iv. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. Vi. a New Method of a Common Place-Book Extracted from the Author's Works. A new ed., A new ed., T. Tegg, 1828. INSERT-MISSING-DATABASE-NAME, INSERT-MISSING-URL. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020.
Commonplace Books (1701-1750)
Halifax, George Savile, and Major William Starling Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries). Miscellanies. The 3rd ed., Printed for B. Tooke, 1717.
Chesterton, G. K. A Miscellany of Men. Project Gutenberg. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2009373&site=ehost-live. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020.
Bellamy, D. (Daniel). The dramatic pieces, and other miscellaneous works in prose and verse, of D. Bellamy, formerly of St. John's College, Oxford. Adorned with sculptures. In which are introduced, several select essays, never before published, by D. Bellamy, jun. of Trinity-College, Cambridge. London, [1739]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Maryland College Park. 3 Mar. 2020
Locke, John. A Common Place-Book to the Holy Bible, or, the Scripture's Sufficiency Practically Demonstrated : Wherein the Substance of Scripture, Respecting Doctrine, Worship, and Manners, Is Reduced to Its Proper Head : Weighty Cases Are Resolved, Truths Confirmed, and Difficult Texts Illustrated and Explained. 3rd ed. : 3rd ed. ed., Printed for R. and J. Bonwicke, and R. Wilkin, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1725. INSERT-MISSING-DATABASE-NAME, nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:3410831. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020.
Commonplace Books (1800-1850)
Barnes, William. Select Poems of William Barnes. Edited by Thomas Hardy, H. Milford, 1833.
Williams, William R., 1804-1885. Miscellanies. New York: E. H. Fletcher, 1850.
Secondary Sources: Literature
Miller, Susan. Assuming the Positions : Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. to Which Are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton. Edited by Henry John Todd, Printed for J. Johnson by Bye and Law, 1801.
Ticknor, George, and Richard Henry Dana. History of Spanish Literature. Harper and Bros, 1849.
Secondary Sources: History
Lockridge, Kenneth A. On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage : The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century. New York University Press, 1992.
Enright, D. J. Interplay : A Kind of Commonplace Book. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Secondary Sources: Reading
Jefferson, Thomas, and Jonathan Michael Gross. Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks : Poems of Nation, Family, & Romantic Love Collected by America's Third President. 1st ed., Steerforth Press, 2006.
Secondary Sources: Philosophy
Moss, A. (1996). Printed commonplace-books and the structuring of renaissance thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press. > hard to find! Did not have time. Call #: PA2047.M67 1996
(ECCO) Online Commonplace Books (1700-1720)
Author of The week's preparation to the sacrament. A collection of miscellanies upon several subjects, divine and moral. By the author of the weeks preparation to the sacrament. London, 1703. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Maryland College Park. 3 Mar. 2020 <http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=umd_um&tabID=T001&docId=CB129467275&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE>.
Sewell, George. English gratitude: or, the Whig miscellany, Consisting of the following poems. I. On the Duke of Marlborough's going into Germany. II. The Oak and the Briar. A Tale. III. An Inscription upon a Triumphal Arch Erected by the French King in Memory of his Victories, for which the Author had a Thousand Pound. IV. The same Revers'd. V. On Burning the Bishop of St. Asaph's Preface. VI. The Favourite. A Simile. Printed for A. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, [1713]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&docLevel=FASCIMILE&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=umd_um&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313982962&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0. Accessed 3 Mar. 2020.
Milton, John
EBSCO MLA Bib, Historical Abstracts, America: History and Life, Academic Search Ultimate
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Nelson, Cary. “The Temporality of Commonplaces: A Response to Meredith McGill.” American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 375–380. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1093/alh/ajm004.
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A Rhetorician\'s Guide to Love: Online Dating Profiles as Remediated Commonplace Books
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Computers and Composition 32:71
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ECCO (1721-1740)
Bellamy, D. (Daniel). The dramatic pieces, and other miscellaneous works in prose and verse, of D. Bellamy, formerly of St. John's College, Oxford. Adorned with sculptures. In which are introduced, several select essays, never before published, by D. Bellamy, jun. of Trinity-College, Cambridge. London, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Maryland College Park. 3 Mar. 2020 . <http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=umd_um&tabID=T001&docId=CW110219120&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE>.
The quintessence of English poetry: or, a collection of all the beautiful passages in our poems and plays: From the Celebrated Spencer. The Whole Instructive, Moral, and Humourous; and adapted to all Degrees of Mankind: Alphabetically digested under proper Heads, in Chronological Order of Time. Collected from many hundred volumes, by several eminent hands. To which is prefix'd, an alphabetical catalogue of authors, Poems, and Plays quoted in the Collection. Also an historical and critical review of all the essays of this kind hitherto published. In Three Volumes. ... Vol. Volume 1. London, MDCCXL. [1740]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Maryland College Park. 3 Mar. 2020. <http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=umd_um&tabID=T001&docId=CW114834740&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE>.
Secondary Source
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Stabile, Susan M. Memory's Daughters : The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America. Cornell University Press, 2004.
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