Writing tables

Folger bibliographic ID: 232779
Folger call number: V.a.531
Folger holdings ID: 235359
Accession Number: 262022

Writing tables, with manuscript notes, originally owned by Alicia Gardiner and then by her son William Gardiner, recording family births, deaths, marriages dating from 1669 to 1779. Also includes epitaphs, verse, and note on Queen Anne's death. Note in ink: "Alicia Gardiner wrote with a Pen, made of an Eagle's Quill. Sunday the 9th August 1724."

General notes

Alicia Gardiner was married to Sir Brocas Gardiner of Roche Court Coated leaves (to facilitate erasure and reuse) are interleaved with regular paper Notes are made by stylus and pen and ink Cornelius J. Hauck Collection (bookplate inside front cover) Hauck acquired from Chiswick Bookshop July 16, 1959 Portions also available as a digital reproduction Bound in finely worked silver filigree in the pattern of a Jesse tree, with silver stylus inserted through clasps to hold the volume closed; gathered leaves held together with green ribbon tied through three holes on spine; pink silk attached to pastedowns and endleaves Acquired from Christie's, History of the Book: The Cornelius J. Hauck Collection, June 27 & 28, 2006, lot 339

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018. Form and Function: The Genius of the Book. Closed

Extended title: Writing tables late 17th century

Gardiner, Brocas, 1663 or 1664-1740 Jesse trees Gardiner family

subject: Gardiner, Brocas, 1663 or 1664-1740
subject: Gardiner family
associated with: Gardiner, Alicia, 1669-1734
associated with: Gardiner, William, 1700-1779
former owner: Hauck, Cornelius J. (Cornelius John), 1893-1967