Here are the details with some information about the book and the author. We appreciate very much the Library staff at the SBT copying all the images we need for the website. – these provenance errors complicate searching!) – and the miracle of online catalogue searching brought up a book in their collection with the MGK bookplate! A check in the Reading with Austen catalogue shows this exact title as listed in the 1818 Godmersham catalogue : a book by Philip Miller titled The Gardeners Kalendar (1732). – and find often that Montagu is misspelled, or he is referred to as “Montagu George, Knight of Chawton,” etc. My Reading with Austen hat is always on and realized I had never searched their library for the Knight bookplates (I search for Chawton, Godmersham, Montagu, Edward, Knight, etc. And internet surfing brought me to various Shakespeare-related sites – the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust a treasure trove of information and many images. One of my book groups was reading Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell (fabulous book if you have not read it…), and I was doing some research on the fact vs.
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