Logan Pearsall SMITH | autograph manuscript commonplace book, c.1920s - 1930s

SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL

Autograph manuscript commonplace book

title page ("No I, Phrase Book") signed with epigraphs, containing quotations, thoughts, phrases, and abstracts, arranged alphabetically by subject and author, with subject index ("air" to "zeitgeist"), also with brief bibliographical and biographical notes arranged by year ("...1902 | Venice | Trivia..."), closely written in a small hand, contemporary foliation, 296 pages, thumb index, 1920s-40s, with 8 leaves of notes loosely inserted, covers worn with loss at spine

A rich resource compiled by a consummate man of letters, this commonplace book is replete with apposite quotations and ideas drawn from a wide range of authors, from Classical philosophers to Victorian novelists. This volume, with its carefully indexed topoi, is in a traditional commonplace format that would have been familiar to Montaigne or Locke, but was less common by the early 20th century. It was well suited to Smith's work, however, and presumably informed the various published anthologies that he compiled, such as A Treasury of English Prose and A Treasury of English Aphorisms. 

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