Apollo Anglicanus, English Apollo, and Saunder. 1687. The second part
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 8 of 12 titles bound together., "Saunder. 1687. The second part" (caption title) has separate register., Signatures: A-B⁸ ²A⁸., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Contains advertisements.
Scale ca. 1:444,000., Shows engagement at entrance to Chesapeake Bay., Plate from: The political magazine and parliamentary, naval, military and literary journal. London: Printed for J. Bew ..., v. 6 (Jan. 1784)., and Includes text, index to positions, and list of British ships and captains.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2L⁶., First leaf is blank., With final contents leaf., First edition 1619., Printed by William Stansby. See E.E. Willoughby. A printer of Shakespeare, 1934., Title page variant: author's name incorrectly spelled "Raphe"., Title-page inscribed: G. Dury, Esq. [17th century hand?], Imperfect: Preliminary blank leaf A₁ wanting., and Formerly laid in: William Roberts Gichard "Commemorative English and French heraldry keepsake". See Lewis Walpole Library 53 C67B B79x
Signatures: pi⁴, A-2A⁴., At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage., LWL 49 3902: With "No." on t.p. with "753" in ms. 2000 catalogues were sold before the sale began., LWL 49 3902: Horace Walpole's copy with his annotations, including a four-page, signed letter providing a history of the collection., and Original marbled boards with calf back, now rebacked. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron used as Bookplate, and fleuron from Anecdotes at end. Press-mark X.7. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Publisher:
Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
125 L278 755 3/11
Image Count:
172
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
Publisher:
Abraham Langford
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, Great Britain, and England.
Subject (Name):
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a penny-worth of wit"., Printed in five columns with the title and imprint above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Full stop at end of title and no punctutation at end of the first line of verse., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 13. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans and Co. 41 Long-lane West-Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Husband and wife, Adultery, Merchants, and Wealth
Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a pennyworth of wit,"., In five columns with the title above the first two and imprint below the last two; the columns are not separated by rules., Full stop at end of title., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 12. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Bow-Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Husband and wife, Adultery, Merchants, and Wealth
"A procession of Queen Caroline on a carriage through central London, with six horses pulling the carriage to the left, followed by another coach, two cavalries in the right foreground, the public along the street in the background, all cheering towards the Queen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 19 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Carriages, Crowds, Cheering, and Cavalry
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse of 26 lines in acrostic form; first lines: O God, my God! In rivers of my tears I come to thee., Below imprint: Price One Penny, or 8d per dozen., Mounted on leaf 16. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by W. Bailey, at No. 28 Great Tower-street, London