tablebookn.

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Iii ^v Floradin..wrote in a table Booke: fye Floradin, fye, shee is thy friend Pericles Wife.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. H Registers..busie with their Table-books..to gather phrases.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 137 If I had playd the Deske, or Table booke..What might you thinke? View more context for this quotation

1667 S. Pepys Diary 10 May (1974) VIII. 208 Found in the dead man's pockets..a table-book, wherein were entered the names of several places where he was to go.

1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Jan. (1948) II. 469 He thanked me for telling him, and immediately put his name in his table-book.

1782 F. Douglas Birth-day i. 21 Unnumber'd evils done, or plotted, She in her table-book had noted.

1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 276 He was observed to busy himself by writing in his table book.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. v. 76 We were off Finisterre on the 31st of July, so Esmond's table-book informs him.

1937 E. Blunden Elegy 11 Might Machiavel Now from his table-book communicate Precept or paradox that could do well In the nerve centres of a modern state?

1964 Times 29 Dec. 8/7 That is the land of which Sir Philip Sydney wrote in his table book when out riding from Wilton House.

2007 M. de Grazia ‘Hamlet’ without Hamlet iv. 114 Numerous tablebooks have survived from the sixteenth century, though very rarely in the hands of a sixteenth-century woman.

1755 (title) Boerhaave's Materia medica, or the druggist's guide, and the physician and apothecary's table-book.

1827 G. Darley Sylvia 28 He cannot count his fingers Without a table-book.

1860 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 571 If we could have but a single table-book for consultation in this branch of knowledge, we should make choice of Dr. Smith's Tables as at once more comprehensive and more easily referred to than any other.

1924 Times 15 Nov. 6/7 Compound arithmetic and table-books would be thus dispensed with.

2006 A. H. Wickens in S. Iwnicki Handbk. Railway Vehicle Dynamics ii. 23 Kalker having issued his results numerically in a tablebook, Elkins and Gostling installed this table in their computer program.

1832 in R. W. Evans Rectory of Valehead (ed. 6) 7 (advt.) It is an excellent Table Book, pleasing and useful for reference, and highly interesting, if merely taken up for its own sake.

1875 Star & Sentinel (Pennsylvania) 15 July 3/2 While it gives carefully the information required by the tourist, it also forms a beautiful table-book.

1969 Amer. Notes & Queries Apr. 122/2 We usually disapprove of ‘table books’ but this one will amuse guests for the whole cocktail hour.

1973 Times 11 Oct. 16/7 They do not go far towards placing Heath Robinson as an illustrator of table-books and children's books in the early decades of the century.

2002 Tulsa World (Nexis) 4 July Elliott's book is a table book that..offers insight into the creative genius of Maxwell.

1650 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Trav. (ed. 2) 27 Some do use to have a small leger book fairely bound up table-book wise [1642 table-book-will].