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John Glover and others 1767-1849 BRITISH (COMMONPLACE BOOK) Unless otherwise specified, texts (poems) are inscribed directly on bound sheets; pictorial material is (cut and) pasted down Loose sheets fashion plate lithograph by L. Mansion etching c. 1600: Dance of death poem: 'Cock Robin' Inside cover engraving: putti with view of London behind f1r wash drawing attrib. John Glover studies of birds, inc. peacock and turkey ink drawing of crested bird watercolour sketch: shepherd five engravings f1v chromolithograph: landscape f2r poem: 'Night' f2v watercolour: posy of flowers f3r poem: 'The glowworm' f3v (blank) f4r poem: 'To the clouds' f4v two engravings f5r poem: 'The stag' f5v poem: 'The stag' (cont.) f6r poem: 'The stag' (cont.) f6v (blank) f7r poem: 'The stag' (cont.) f7v poem: 'To a friend about to marry a second time' inserted sheet - f8r (blank) inserted sheet - f8v two engravings f9r poem: 'Spring' f9v (blank) f10r ink drawing attrib. John Glover Cormorant f10v ink and wash drawing by John Richardson Glover: landscape f11r poem: 'Spring' (cont.) f11v poem: 'Spring' (cont.) watercolour attrib. John Glover woman on a rocky shore f12r poem: 'At a convent' f12v watercolour: flowers f13r poem: 'Woman's love' f13v five engravings f14r poem: 'The Giaour' f14v (attachment removed. Page inscribed 'Miss Mary Parker') f15r text: 'The old maid's thermometer' f15v text: 'The old maid's thermometer' (cont.) f16r etching signed CL (Charles Robert Leslie?) and titled ,in plate: Glover (portrait of John Glover f16v ink and wash drawing by John Glover: country cottage engraving f17r ink and wash drawing by John Glover: woman and children in interior f17v poem pasted in: 'He who hath bent him o'er the dead...' f18r watercolour: rose f18v etching: wooded landscape with bridge etching by John Glover (signed in plate): garden with house and pavilion f19r poem: 'The withered leaf' f19v poem: 'The withered leaf' (cont.) f20r poem: 'The withered leaf' (cont.) poem: 'To Mary' f20v poem: 'To Mary' (cont.) Wash drawing by John Glover: mountain landscape with cottage f21r etching: figures in a mountain stream etching: coastal landscape with ruined tower f21v poem: 'The change' f22r poem: 'The change' (cont.) f22v wash drawing, circle of John Glover Fountains Abbey f23r poem: 'The female convict' f23v poem: 'The female convict' (cont.) f24r poem: 'The female convict' (cont.) poem: A peri's parting strain' f24v poem: 'To Miss – ' f25r ink and wash drawing attrib. John Glover old barge ink and wash drawing by John Glover: cattle and figures in landscape f25v watercolour: buttercups f26r poem: 'For Miss – ' f26v etching: landscape with riverbank and classical ruins f27r poem' 'Lines on the death of a friend' f27v poem' 'Lines on the death of a friend' (cont.) f28r poem: 'Addressed to some young ladies on the death of their mother' f28v poem: 'The (?) of the slighted' f29r pencil drawing: bull's head f29v poem: 'The transformation' Executed circa 1820s and later