[Commonplace book by a student of history, law and government]
Published: 1770
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Politics and government; History; Law; Early works to 1800; Philosophy; The State
Description: Commonplace book kept by an unidentified English or Irish student, with excerpts from and citations to authorities including John Locke; William Blackstone;  Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu; Adam Smith; William Robertson. Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke, and others. Leaves 100-110 contain a report of a legal case involving John Leland, debtor, of the County of the City of Dublin and the Barons of the Exchequer.
Notes: With an engraved title page: "Bell's common-place book form'd generally upon the principles recommended and practised by Mr. Locke" followed by 8 printed pages on the keeping of a commonplace book.

First 8 pages are printed text on how to keep a commonplace book, followed by 10  unnumbered partially printed index pages, with notes added in manuscript. Followed by 144 numbered leaves of manuscript and 84 blank leaves.

HLS MS 4521, Harvard Law School Library.

Bound in contemporary vellum; morocco spine label with title: Common Place Book; marbled endpapers.