Caption title., With docket title on p. [8]., The private act necessary before Horace Walpole could buy Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 22 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., For further information, consult library staff., "An act for sale of divers lands and tenements in Twickenham ..." mounted and bound to 56 cm., and With note (in Thomas Kirgate's hand?) about a hearing, 30 May 1749, below docket title on page [8].
Caption title., With docket title on p. [8]., The private act necessary before Horace Walpole could buy Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 22 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., For further information, consult library staff., "An act for sale of divers lands and tenements in Twickenham ..." mounted and bound to 56 cm., and With note (in Thomas Kirgate's hand?) about a hearing, 30 May 1749, below docket title on page [8].
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
published according to act of Parliament, [approximately 1736]
Call Number:
736.11.08.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
An ass with panniers, driven by Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury who carries a whip in one hand and a book in the other. The ass has the face of Dr. Lynch, Dean of Canterbury, son-in-law of Wake who bestowed manu preferments on the Dean. A poorly fed and clothed clergyman kneels on one knee before the ass and salutes the beast, who turns his face away. In the pannier, which is marked "Sinecure of Bray", lie many labels or packages inscribed with the names of Dr. Llynch's preferments
Alternative Title:
Ass loaded wth church preferments and Ass loaded with church preferments
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from dated impression of this print in the Pierpont Morgan Library., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1735., The word 'church' in title is represented by an image of a church building., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wake, William, 1657-1737 and Lynche, John, 1697 or 1698-1760
Caption title., Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s., First line: Miss Pure, a very neat and clean-heeled filly, from Black Mary's Hole, near London ..., A broadside advertising the services and skills of woman, Miss Jenny Foreyard, Cleopatra Tickleback, Diana Trapes, Polly Trim, Jenny Spruce, and Lucy Pleasant, with rates., Not in ESTC., and Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
Case of the owners of the upper-levels, against the bill relating to the harbour or Rye
Description:
Dropped-head title., Verso blank., First line of text: The salt channel from White Kemp, and the Five Watering Sluices, to the point near Guldeford ..., Date on last line: 1st June 1786., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England., Kent (England), Romney Marsh (England : Marsh), England, and Kent.
Subject (Topic):
Sluices, Public works, and Channels (Hydraulic engineering)
A broadside on London Bridge and its partial destruction by fire on 11 April 1758, with an account on the history of bridges on the site and an engraving of the view of London and the River Thames, with the remains of London Bridge in the centre above; engraved title above and letterpress title and text in two columns below
Alternative Title:
Chronological and historical account from the first building a bridge across the River Thames from London to Southwark ...
Description:
Title from etched text above the design., Letterpress caption title below image and above the two columns of text: A chronological and historical account from the first building a bridge across the River Thames from London to Southwark, 'till the late conflagration of the temporary bridge, the 11th of April, 1758., Titled 'An exact View of London Bridge since the conflagration of the late temporary Bridge, 11th of April, 1758: with an historical account of ditto, sold by W. Herbert' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829., "Price one shilling plain. Colour'd eighteen pence.", Plate mark: 22 x 35 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of price statement from bottom edge., and Mounted to: 57 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by William Herbert, under the Piazzas, on the remains of London-Bridge
Subject (Geographic):
Thames River (England), England, London, London., and London (England)
At the door leading into a squalid room, a girl in a ragged shift asks her neighbor, "Please Mister Saveall, Father says will you lend him your bellis to blow our fire up, as he's broke our'n." He is also dressed in ragged, patched clothes and sits on an overturned, broken chair as he uses a bellows to fan the fire below a kettle in the fireplace. He turns back and says over his shoulder, "Tell your Father that I never makes a practice of lending my things out to any body, but if he likes to come here he may blow all day if he chooses."
Alternative Title:
Obliging neighbour!
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of woollen drapery, & mens mercery goods, viz. superfine second livery & drab cloths, forrest cloths Bath coatings, German serges, marble cloths & lincys, rutteens & duffills, sergedenims & everlastings, thicksetts & fustains, Manchester velvets, hair & worsted shags, shalloons & rattenetts, paduas & mill'd serges, double & single allopeens, fine says, tamies & callimancos, sattins & corded padusoys, serge dusoys, princes stuff & prunellas, Turky burdetts & cherry derrys, fine dimothys, with sundry other drapery & mercery goods, at the lowest prices, for ready money., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 32 of an album of trade cards and invitations.