John Horne Tooke

[Daniel B Rosenberg <drosnbrg@UCLINK.BERKELEY.EDU>]

Dear EXLIBRIS Readers:

I am working on the English radical politician and etymologist John Horne
Tooke (1736-1812) [catalogued sometimes as "Horne", sometimes as "Horne
Tooke" and sometimes as "Tooke"].  I am interested in locating any
manuscript or rare book materials by or pertaining to him and any
correspondence written by or to him.  In particular, I am interested in
locating a number of books owned by Horne Tooke in the margins of which he
made substantial manuscript annotations.  Among these are a copy of:

--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755-6) with a set of notecards for a
dictionary which Horne Tooke intended to write
--James Harris' Hermes (1771) and Philosophical Arrangements (1775)
--James Burnet, Lord Monboddo's On the Origin and Progress of Language
(1773-92)
--William Godwin's Enquirer (1797)
--Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Fifty Comedies and Tragedies (1679)

A substantial number of other books with Horne Tooke's notes were
auctioned in 1813.  Auction records for some others exist as late as 1861.
 Information about the whereabouts of any of them would be very useful to
me.  I am aware of the holdings of the British Library and of the Clark
Library, and I understand that the Newberry Library holds at least one of
these books.

I am also interested in rare or manuscript materials by Charles de Brosses
(1709-1777), Antoine Court de Gebelin (1728-1784), and James Burnet, Lord
Monboddo (1714-1799).

Thank you very much.

                                Daniel Rosenberg
                                <drosnbrg@uclink.berkeley.edu>
                                523 Guerrero St.
                                San Francisco, CA 94110
                                USA