England and Wales England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)
Published / Created:
1677-9.
Call Number:
P45 G5 +A2 1677
Image Count:
31
Alternative Title:
Anno regni Caroli II ... [29 & 30] ... 1682. and Laws, etc.
Description:
P45 G5 +A2 1677: Another edition. 54, [6] p. 28 cm. Bound with its Anno regni Caroli II ... [29] ... 1677[-83]. Signatures: A-P2. Pages [49]-54 have special title page: Anno regni Caroli II ... [29 & 30] At the Parliament begun ... the eighth of May ... 1661 ... and there continued to the 20th day of March, and 13th of May [1678] ... London, Printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, 1682.
Publisher:
Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills,
Bound with its Anno regni Caroli II ... [22 & 23] ... 1670/71. and Each act preceded by general title page.
Publisher:
Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker,
Subject (Name):
Great Britain (1660-1685 : James II).--Anno regni Jacobi II ...--[1], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[22 & 23], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[29 & 30], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[30], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[31], and Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[32]
Subject (Topic):
Fraud--Great Britain, Law--Great Britain, and Perjury--Great Britain
Bound with its Anno regni Caroli II ... [29] ... 1677-[83]. and Each act has general title page, that at p. [97] with imprint: London, Printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd: and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, 1684.
Publisher:
Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills,
Siegfried Sassoon's copy of the first, unexpurgated issue of Robert Graves's Good-bye To All That (1929), annotated and with clippings. Sassoon's annotations include personal comments, many critical, and factual corrections, most relating to Graves's account of his service in the war. Clippings, pasted in and loose, include reviews, illustrations, and letters to the editor. With one typescript reply to Sassoon from publisher Jonathan Cape, dated November 1929, identifying corrections to be made, at Sassoon's request, to the remaining, undistributed copies of the first issue.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some clippings in Swedish, Dutch, and French., Purchased from Christie's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2007., Robert Graves (1895-1985), English author., and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English author.
Subject (Name):
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Good-bye to all that., Graves, Robert,--1895-1985., Jonathan Cape (Firm), and Sassoon, Siegfried,--1886-1967.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, English.
Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Hughes in volumes 1-7., Binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt. Spines gilt with red morocco gilt title labels., Formerly owned by Prince Albert. Ex libris Thomas Hughes. Formerly owned by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Formerly owned by Paula Peyraud. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2009., Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821), author and diarist, published one of the first biographies of Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786); her Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book, was not published until 1942., and Piozzi's annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays; variations in women's fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, Spectator (London, England : 1711), and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers