BEIN X106 672c: Imperfect: leaf [1] mutilated. Autograph on leaf [5] verso: Edward Teaklie his book. Occasional pen trials throughout. Inscribed on first plate: Magnum in parvo, the pen's perfection, invented, written and engraven in silver by Edward Cocker abt. the year 1652. Ink stamp: W.E. Dennis. Binder's label: Edward Cocker, London 1652. Quaint and curious styles of script and lettering., Description based on imperfect copy., Work not identified--cf. A. Heal, The English writing-masters, 1931, p. 142 & 143., and Plates A-E, G-R; each contains a large ornamental letter, an alphabet, verse and sentence in prose (or verse or sentence). Plates A, B, D, E, G-I not signed by Cocker.
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
Merlinus verax and Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 3 of 12 titles bound together., A lover of loyalty = John Gadbury., A different work from the "Merlinus verax" of Robert Neve., and Signatures: A-B⁸ ²B⁸ D⁸ E⁴.
Publisher:
Printed for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Almanacs, English, Ephemerides, Astrology, History, and Chronology
Remarkable news from the stars and Ephemeris for the year, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Imperfect: hole in corner of leaf B4, with no loss of text. Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 9 of 12 titles bound together., Subsequently published with title: Remarkable news from the stars., Quires [A]-B in red and black., Printer's name from Wing CD., and Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸.
Publisher:
printed by A.G. [Alice Grover] for the Company of Stationers
Starry messenger for the year of our redemption, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 6 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., Printer's name from Wing CD., and Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸.
Publisher:
Printed by A.G. [Alice Grover] 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.
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 11 of 12 titles bound together., Part 2 has special t.p.: Poor Robin, 1687 : a prognostication ..., Advertisements: p. [7] and [48]., and Poor Robin = William Winstanley. Cf. ESTC.
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.
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.
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