Figure 1. John Martin, “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind” (1690 – 96), Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.258 fol.8v. Photograph by the author. More

Figure 2. John Martin, “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind” (1690 – 96), Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.258 fol.1r. Photograph by the author. More

Figure 3. John Martin, “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind” (1690 – 96), Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.258 fol.247v. Photograph by the author. More

Figure 1. Locke's commonplace book index, printed in Locke, A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books . . . To Which Is added Something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same Subject , trans. from French (London: J. Greenwood, 1706), Huntington Library, RB 470934. Courtesy of the Huntingt... More

Figure 2. Index from the print/manuscript commonplace book of R. King in A New Common- Place Book, in which the Plan Recommended and Practiced by John Locke, Esq., is enlarged and improved , 3rd ed. (Cambridge: John Nicolson, 1783), Huntington, HM 79057. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Ma... More

Figure 3. Excerpt from the print/manuscript commonplace book of R. King in A New Common-Place Book, in which the Plan Recommended and Practiced by John Locke, Esq., is enlarged and improved (Cambridge: John Nicolson, 1783), Huntington, HM 79057. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca... More

Figure 4. Excerpt from the print/manuscript commonplace book of R. King in A New Common-Place Book, in which the Plan Recommended and Practiced by John Locke, Esq., is enlarged and improved (Cambridge: John Nicolson, 1783), Huntington, HM 79057. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca... More

Figure 5. John Bacon, Medical commonplace book of John Bacon (1775), FEM, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Biomed History and Special Collections Cage Manuscripts, Franklin E. Murphy, M.D. Collection, Ms. Coll. no 618. More