A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 133: Title label on case shaved with place of publication wanting. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from slipcase., and Date inferred from reference to the re-establishment of a "legitimate monarchy" in France.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing Cards, Manners and customs, Costume, and Description and travel
Caption title., Printed on silk, within decorative borders. Engraved portrait of "Caroline Queen of England" beneath title., Broadside addressed from the Brass Founders and Braziers in support of Queen Caroline in October 1820, a month before the withdrawal of the Pains and Penalties Bill which aimed to annul Caroline’s marriage to George IV. Beneath the address is a response from Queen Caroline together with an ‘Order of the Procession’ in support of the queen., First lines: May it please Your Most Excellent Majesty. We, the operative Workers of Brass ... do most humbly and dutifully approach your Most Gracious Majesty, to offer our congratulations on your Majesty’s return ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Cowie, 58 Shoe Lane, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Brass Founders and Braziers.
To William Davison, chemist, druggist, & apothecary
Description:
Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Engraved invoice for the pharmacist, stationer, and printer William Davison of Alnwick., and Invoice completed in manuscript to "Major Frankland, West Glanton"; numbered "231" in upper right and dated "1821 October 17" in lower left. For further information, consult library staff.
Two illustrations, with accompanying text, showing the shooting of James King of William in San Francisco, California and the surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora
Description:
Description based on imperfect Beinecke Library copy, consisting of only the first of two sheets described by Baird., Title from captions below images., and Second illustration, "Surrender of Jas. P. Casey and Charles Cora," signed in lower right "Huestis."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
King, James, 1822-1856, Casey, James P., Cora, Charles., and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
All engraved including title page on verso of first leaf., Date from publication based on known date of Thomas Hope's commission for the work by Henry Moses. Cf. Designs of modern costume, engraved for Thomas Hope of Deepdene. London : Costume Society, 1973., Plates signed: H. Moses del. et sc., and Bound in contemporary straight-grain red morocco, bordered in blind on covers, spine gilt in compartments; with a bold autograph on the recto of front free marbled end-paper: Edward Bell.For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Henry Setchel & Son 23 King Strt. Covt. Garedn
Print shows General Winfield Scott upon victory over Mexican forces at Contreras, Mexico, in August 1847; Scott on a light-colored horse, with plumed tricorn hat held high, center; with soldiers, some fallen, some bandaged, most standing and waving caps; cannon, left
Alternative Title:
General Scott at Contreras
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 324: On sheet 18.9 x 29.0 cm., BEIN WA Prints 325: On sheet 21.3 x 25.9 cm., Title from caption below image., and Another state issued with imprint letters below caption "Virtue, Emmins & Co., publishers, N.Y." and below that statement "Entered according to act of Congress AD 1859 by John Emmins in the clerk's office of the United States for the Southern District of New York" issued in Tomes, Robert. Battles of America by land and sea (New York: Virtue & company, 1861), volume 3, plate facing page 499.
Print shows General Winfield Scott upon victory over Mexican forces at Contreras, Mexico, in August 1847; Scott on a light-colored horse, with plumed tricorn hat held high, center; with soldiers, some fallen, some bandaged, most standing and waving caps; cannon, left
Alternative Title:
General Scott at Contreras
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 324: On sheet 18.9 x 29.0 cm., BEIN WA Prints 325: On sheet 21.3 x 25.9 cm., Title from caption below image., and Another state issued with imprint letters below caption "Virtue, Emmins & Co., publishers, N.Y." and below that statement "Entered according to act of Congress AD 1859 by John Emmins in the clerk's office of the United States for the Southern District of New York" issued in Tomes, Robert. Battles of America by land and sea (New York: Virtue & company, 1861), volume 3, plate facing page 499.
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 132: Title card pasted to sleeve. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. and Title card and 25 numbered cards depicting inhabitants of various countries.