Caption title., Docket title: The case of the weavers of London., Place and date of publication from ESTC., With factotum initial T., and Stab-stitch holes to gutter margin. For further information, consult library staff.
Scotland drawn and engraved from a series of angles and astronomical observations
Description:
Title from cartouche., Engraved throughout., Relief shown by contour lines and pictures., Scale of miles 69 1/2 to a degree., Another imprint: "Published according to Act of Parliament Jan. 1st. 1789 by John Ainslie ... and William Faden ..." at bottom of sheet., Inset maps: "Shetland Islands laid down upon a less scale than the map ... "; "A Map of the Orkney Islands ...", Distance tables and lists of heights of hills and roads from Edinburgh to London., Edinburgh meridian, with note of degrees from Greenwich., Title cartouche shows men fishing and herding cattle, with sheep goats and foliage., Six compass roses., This issue not in Chubb, T. Printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland., and Scotland.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by the proprietor Thomas Brown, North Bridge Street, Edinburgh and Publish'd according to Act of Parliament with improvements till 1800 by Thomas Brown ... Edinburgh and William Faden ... London
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Orkney (Scotland), Shetland (Scotland), Scotland., Orkney., and Shetland.
Hudibras and Ralpho riding on tired, emaciated horses travel on a country road. In the foreground to the left, a dog snarls at their approach while to the right, a man, holding a rake in one hand and his hat in his other hand, laughs at the sight of the rotund rider as he backs into and knocks over a table laden with baskets of produce and a tankard as he bends toward the riders. Behind him on the right, his wife grabs for the falling baskets and reaches for him to prevent further damage, a look of alarm on her face. In this end state a house has been added behind the wife
Alternative Title:
Sir Hudibras his passing worth, the manner how he sally'd forth and Hudibras sallying forth
Description:
Title engraved above image., From a series of twelve prints after Hogarth and issued by Robert Sayer. Publisher name from first print in series., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement on the first plate in this series. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '2' in upper left corner., Verse in three columns below image: "When civil dudgeon first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why: when Gospel-trumpeter surrrounded with long-ear'd rout, to battel sounded, and pulpit drum ecclesiastick was beat with fist, instead of a stick, then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling and out he rose a colonelling. A squire he had, whose name was Ralph, that in th' adventure went his half. An equal stock of wit and valour he had laid in, by birth a taylor. Their armes and equipage did fit as well as vertues, parts and wit their valours too were of a rate, and out they sally'd at the gate.", Copy of no. 505 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 83., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
Description:
In English and Latin., Title from preliminary leaf, larger volume, on paper bound in preceding marks on vellum leaves., Title on preliminary leaf in smaller volume: The swane booke., Both volumes with the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 25. B., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two books of Swanmark's, 8vo, bound in vellum, and extremely rare.
Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
Description:
In English and Latin., Title from preliminary leaf, larger volume, on paper bound in preceding marks on vellum leaves., Title on preliminary leaf in smaller volume: The swane booke., Both volumes with the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 25. B., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two books of Swanmark's, 8vo, bound in vellum, and extremely rare.
Caption title., Date inferred from manuscript note on verso., Printed advertisement, issued by Mary Noble, for her servant registry office in London. Noble was proprietor of the business between 1781 and 1785, when the City of London Land Tax records lists her as paying an annual rent and Land Tax for her premises., First line: The proprietor begs leave to inform those Ladies and Gentlemen who please to honour her with their commands ..., Signed: M. Noble., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript, in a single hand, in the style of The Spectator for year 1768. The volume's contents are primarily tongue-in-cheek, including a dedication to Nobody; a narrative autobiography of a flea; advice to readers; and a discussion on the art of punning. The volume also records, with primarily satirical intent, the letters sent to the editor, including one by a woman who believes herself the subject of an entry in the Spectator. Other topics include a meditation on the sufferings of Christ on the cross and a translation of an ancient Persian manuscript titled History of Abdullah. Numerous entries are dated from Kings College, Cambridge
Description:
In English., In faint ink on title page: Transcribed for the Author., Pasted on p. 1: elaborate printed border., Armorial bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork., and Binding: full red morocco with gilt decoration. In gilt on spine over green morocco: Pumice Mundus. Paucis osendi gemit. The Speculator.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Periodicals, and Religious literature, English
A broadside on Christopher Bullock, a tiny but fat watch and clock-maker in Suffolk; with a woodcut showing a portrait of Bullock, holding a wig in his left hand, mopping his brow with the other; with letterpress title and text, including information on other people of Suffolk including another dwarf Miss B-t-h-c-r, and a table listing market days and distances from London of towns on the road to Yarmouth, and with one vertical segment of type ornaments. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
Description:
Caption title., Woodcut of the dwarf dated 1755. See Sheila O'Connell's 'Popular Print in England' (British Museum 1999, cat.4.41) where she shows that the portrait was lifted from an etching of Jacob Powell made a year or two earlier (see British Museum cat.4.40)., Woodcut signed lower left with a italic 'g'?, and Preserved in a modern mount. For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Place of printing and date from ESTC., Docket title: The case of the makers and dealers in cards and dice., and Stab marks to left margin. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Dice, Playing card industry, and Foreign trade regulation
Caption title., With reference to the importation of a sort of chip or shaving from Holland., Docket title: The case of the straw-hat-makers, humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament., and Stab-stitch holes and remains of binding to gutter; single early manuscript correction to text. For further information, consult library staff.