BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 1 of 12 titles bound together., With a title-page portrait., Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴., and With a final advertisement leaf.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Macock for the Company of Stationers
Caption title., An advertisement in verse, with two columns of letterpress text beginning "With humblest deference we greet ..."; wood-engraved illustration at top depicting two ladies trying on wigs both facing a bust with "Princes' Royal" on plinth; an "Explanation" printed below in five lines; all within a typographic ornament border., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Printer prossibly W. Bailey located at 28 Great Tower Street, London. Cf. Heal, 99.22 & 23 advertise "At Bailey's Printing-Office... Shop-Bills, Hand-Bills, &c. of this Size and Paper, are printed for six Shillings a Thousand; and on an inferior Paper of this Size, for five Shillings a Thousand ...", Sheet trimmed with loss of most of the imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for an act for the discharge of insolvent debtors
Description:
Caption title., Docket title: Reasons humbly offer'd to both houses of Parliament for an act for the discharge of insolvent debtors. From the prison of Ludgate., The specific reference to Prison of Ludgate suggests a date of 1715; reforms were put before the House of Commons in a Bill in May/June 1715., Not in ESTC., and With stitching holes to gutter margin. For further information, consult library staff.
Buckland, James, 1710 or 1711-1790, playing card maker
Published / Created:
Jany. 1816.
Call Number:
ENG54
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
White horse
Description:
BEIN ENG54: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. Coloration by hand., Title from Schimmell or White horse card., No suit system., Type: Game., Composition of deck: 5 [Inn, Hammer, Schimmell or White horse, Bell, Hammer & Bell]., and All cards: Publish'd by J. Buckland, London. Schimmel card: January, 1816.
Caption title., Signed: Enemy to the shop tax., In support of Lord John Townshend against Lord Samuel Hood in the Westminster election of 1788., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Townshend, John, 1757-1833., and Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Taxation, Public opinion, and Retail trade
Title from caption above woodcut. Text begins with a quote from Heb 12.6: "When I am scourged with affliction's rod ...", Each word or short phrase of the Apostles’ Creed is paired with two biblical quotations paraphrasing it., Text in two columns, divided by a single rule; the title and illustration span both columns., Mounted on leaf 3. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Verse begins: "Batchelors of e'ery station,", Above first line: Part 1., In five columns undivided by rules; title and woodcut above the first two columns., Another printing of the edition recorded in ESTC T200945 (with no full stop after "lady" in the title), and N70792; that they are of the same setting is evidenced by damaged letters and other typographical indicia., 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 9. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4, Aldermary Churchyard
Subject (Topic):
Women, Conduct of life, Heiresses, Lawyers, and Bachelors
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.
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.