From the Collection: Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 1762 or 1763-1833
Published / Created:
1815 Oct 15
Call Number:
OSBORN FC112
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
5
Description:
Briers 3 p.; 23 x 18 cm. On Sir George Cockburn (1763-1847) and the provisioning of Napoleon I, emperor of the French (1769-1821), on St. Helena. 112/22a and b
[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691] digitized at high resolution. Accompanying material digitized at medium resolution., Accompanied by: Butler's note (1833 Jan 12) presenting the letter to Sir Henry Dryden; an inaccurate printed version of the letter; ALS (ca. 1710) from Honor Dryden to her cousin Sir Erasmus Dryden (1669-1710); some 19th century notes on Dryden and Walsh., and Dryden criticises Walsh's "Dialogue concerning Women" (published in 1691) and an epigram that later appeared in Walsh's "Letters and Poems" (1692) with Dryden's suggested revisions.
Alternative Title:
[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691].
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and The letter was presented to Sir Henry Dryden in 1833 by Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Chitty, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
Album containing 73 pressed botanical specimens compiled by an unidentified collector in Norfolk, England, 1793. Each specimen has notes indicating its Latin name, common name, and Linnaean classification. Some notes also include the date of collection, the location of collection, and medicinal uses of the plant
Description:
In English and Latin., The album was created in a blank accounts book, and the pages have printed red rules., and Binding: contemporary vellum over boards, with blind tooled ruling; the arms of King George III stamped in gilt on the front and back covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Norfolk
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Botanical specimens, Collection and preservation, Flowers, Herbs, and Plants
BEIN Ih T215 +C630: Imperfect: A1 (blank? wanting); engraved t.p. slightly mutilated. Armorial bookplate: Aldenham House, Herts. Autograph: Henry H. Gibbs, St. Dunstans, 1860, bought of Libby., BEIN Osborn fpb42: 30 cm. Bookplate: A[rthur] L[ytton] S[ells]. Autograph: Charles Cotton. Autograph: Ber[esford] Cotton. Autograph: Jane [Cotton]. Ms. annotations on endpapers and in text. From the library of Henry Huth. Printed waste used in binding., BEIN Osborn fpb62: Imperfect: 2Q4 torn at fore-edge with some loss of text. Bookplate: Robert S. Pirie. Manuscript corrections, underlining, and notes throughout., Signatures: A-N⁶ O² 2A-2Q⁶ 2R⁴ 2S² 3A-3K⁶, ²3A-3L⁶ ²3M⁸., First leaf (A1) is blank, the engraved title page is a singleton and inserted following it., Added title page, engraved by T. Cockson with portrait of author in lower center., Not in fact a complete edition of the author's works; a number of which had been previously published are omitted., With woodcut illustrations and portraits., Numerous errors in pagination., Printers' names from STC: "Beale printed quires A, 2A-2S, and 3A-3K; Allde printed B-O; Alsop and Fawcett printed ²3A-3M"., and Partly in verse.
Publisher:
Printed by J.B. [i.e. John Beale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett] for Iames Boler, at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard
Inscription: Archibald Macwhirter, Ardgaith, Dysart, November, 1954. Ghosted impression of compilers ex libris, J. Young[?]. Ms. introduction on [18] p. preceding first title, dated "15th January 1821." No. 22 of 25 works bound together with binders title
Description:
Bound with 24 other titles.
Publisher:
Webster, printer, 20, Lothian Street
Subject (Name):
Christie, Jonathan Henry. and Scott, John, 1784-1821
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a complete prognostication for someone born in the Haywards Heath region of Sussex, including his personality; the length of his life; his financial situation; his relationship to his father; the number of his marriages; satisfaction with his servants; the behavior of his "pretended friends"; and the kind of travel he will do. For example, the manuscript declares, "The Native should go many voyages or long journies...the chief end of his travelling should be to gain learning and honor; But the Moon and Mare being in opposition to the Ninth Hous, shewe that it should be very unproffitable to him." The volume also includes 7 horoscope drawings.
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron; signature of Michael Lort (1725-90)., Binding: contemporary panelled calf, gilt., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Marbled endpapers., On title page: An Astrological Judgment Upon the Nativity of a Gentleman born in the Latitude of 51 degr. And from the Meridian of London to the Westward 13 min: Astronomically and Astrologically Performed by Phillip Williams, Student in Astrology., and Pages 46-50 blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Sussex (England)
Subject (Name):
Williams, Phillip
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Divination, Fortune-telling, Horoscopes, and Planets
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama