Notebook of Octavius Morgan on Cox's Museum
Reference code
MOA/06
Title
Notebook of Octavius Morgan on Cox's Museum
Date
19th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
Paper; pp. i + 73.
Quarto.
Leather binding, dark blue. Signature of Octavius Morgan, FSA, p.i.
Quarto.
Leather binding, dark blue. Signature of Octavius Morgan, FSA, p.i.
Scope and content
Notebook of Octavius Morgan, FSA (1803-88) containing a copy of the inventory of 'several exquisite & magnificent pieces of Mechanism and Jewellery' (p. 1) in Cox's Museum (from the schedule to an Act, 1773, enabling James Cox of the City of London to dispose of his museum by lottery). With loose material including a printed guide (owned by Morgan's mother Charlotte Georgiana Morgan, signature) to Week's Museum (1807) (modelled on Cox's Museum).
Creator
Morgan, Charles Octavius Swinnerton (1803-1888), MP and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/913
Archival history
Found with the Oswald Barron collection (BAR).