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- Published / Created:
- 1660
- Call Number:
- Osborn b421
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Accompanied by: Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing several works in verse and prose apparently composed by Dorothy Calthorpe. The volume opens with three poems in couplets: "Philismena to Philander," "Philander to Philismena," and "In commendations of a country Life it being so innocent," and a short prose "Discription of the Garden of Edden." These are followed by a longer prose narrative: "A Short History of the Life and Death of Sir Ceasor Dappefer, or els a pleasent histtory of Jewlious and Dorinda the truth of it was so lately represented that some of those worthy persons are stil liueing and ownes what is here repated." The story, which Calthorpe claims is based on the lives of her father and grandfather, traces the business success and courtships of a father and son. "A Castell in the aire, or the pallace of the man in the moone" is a prose work containing both religious reflection and descriptions of "visiones" of Roman gods, eagles and celestial gardens. and The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ...London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1660. Ownership and presentation inscriptions include "Dorothy Harvey her book Giuen me by my uncell Nicholas Jun 15 1686. Pray for NH, he pray for thee;" "Given to Anne the Hon.ble Ly. Middeleton by Mrs. Caroline Acton, Decr. 1836;" and "Jane Anne Broke from her Godmother Anne Hon.ble Lady Middleton July 28 1860." Bound in black gilt-panelled morocco, with a six-compartment gilt spine. Marbled endpapers.
- Alternative Title:
- Writings, [1672-1684]
- Description:
- Dorothy Calthorpe was probably connected to the Calthorpe family of Ampton in Suffolk, but she has not been further identified. and Purchased from Sotheby's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006.
- Publisher:
- Henry Hills and John Field
- Subject (Name):
- Calthorpe, Dorothy and Cowlthorp family
- Subject (Topic):
- Religious literature, English and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ...
- Creator:
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734?-1810, printer
- Call Number:
- Jax 099
- Collection Title:
- A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... with an inventory of the furniture, pictures
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Extra-illustrated copy.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Collection Created:
- Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The title page of this book is printed in three colours - it was Kirgate's own Little Unique
- Published / Created:
- [after 1616]
- Call Number:
- Osborn pb83
- Collection Title:
- The Whole Book of Psalmes
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Title page with facing page of manuscript annotations
- Collection Created:
- London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1616
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The whole book of psalms, collected into English meeter ...
- Creator:
- Bowens, Edward
- Published / Created:
- 1709
- Call Number:
- 1977 2532
- Collection Title:
- Paradise regaind : a poem in IV books to which is added Samson Agonistes / the author, John Milton
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- [Paradise regained]
- Description:
- Manuscript ownership inscriptions and marginalia on front flyleaf and rear flyleaf.
- Collection Created:
- London : Printed by J.M[acock]. for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleet-street , near Temple-Bar, MDCLXXI [1671]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Autographs of Edward Bowens, 1709].
- Published / Created:
- 1623
- Call Number:
- Ig D226 609
- Collection Title:
- The civile wares betweene the howses of Lancaster and Yorke / corrected and continued by Samuel
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- A letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius
- Subject (Name):
- Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683
- Collection Created:
- Printed at London : by Simon Watersonne, 1609
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Two pages including manuscript annotation]