Notes of Love and Adoration

The final page of this book includes a sorrowful note of the
passing of the wife of John Preston of Peckham in the County

of Surry.

“In good & virtuous acts, excelled by none. There’s few her

equal here, alas! She’s gone.”

Charles Gibbes
XXXI sermons preached to the parishioners..., London: 1677.
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Two items are laid into this book. The first is an image of a red rose,
which brings to mind feelings of love and adoration. The second item is a
poem entitled The Broken Engagement. It is an elegy for a love that once was there.

Dwight, Timothy
Theology; explained and defended... Middletown,
Conn., 1818-19. (v. 2 of 5)
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On p.93 laid in the book we discovered an intention for
marriage. Written on lined paper in a blue ink.

Allan Ramsay
An historical essay on the English Constitution..., London: 1771.
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Notes laid in this Bible indicate a heated exchange.

New Testament (vol.3 (1710) 859pp; N.T. Apocry.
(one German Version only), 50pp., followed by J.H.
Reitz’s Erlauteruugen; an appendix (1712)...
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One of the later inscriptions, in pencil, notes that this book is a
farewell present to a new owner of the text.

New Testament (vol.3 (1710) 859pp; N.T. Apocry.
(one German Version only), 50pp., followed by J.H.
Reitz’s Erlauteruugen; an appendix (1712)...
Bible Collection