Title from item., Date from copy in Wellcome Collection., Place of publication derived from language of text., Sheet trimmed with loss of inscription., Below title in untrimmed copy: No. 2 of Broad Hints ; United., In ink, margin lower right: 1836., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Undertakers and undertaking, Customer relations, Sick persons, Medicines, Guests, Bedrooms, and Undertakers
Caption title., Place of publication is assumed., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 206.
Title from first line of text., Playbill advertising a spectacular show of shadow theatre and mechanical representation of the Battle of the Nile., The Lewis Walpole Library: Blanks completed in manuscript for a performance in Bristol on Thursday evening July 21st at Mr. Walkers' gun[?]. Thursday evening appears as a pasted slip over "Wednesday"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Cabriolets. These are very numerous, -and great acquisitions, -plying at regularly appointed stands to be enjoyed at reasonable fares and tho' allowing but a confined view of what passes ..., and Second sheet attached to print 8 x 17 cm.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Print numbered '4' in upper right corner., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Calais pier, and custom house. A safe arrival in smooth water, the loud exclamations, chattering, and hoot-too of crowds of soldiers, and others, on the pier ..., and Second sheet attached to print 8 x 17 cm.
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Pencil notation: Cambridge published by W. Mason., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Phrenology, Public speaking, Skulls, and Audiences
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing four of the Canterbury tales: the Clerk's tale; the Wife of Bath's tale; the Friar's tale; and the Summoner's tale
Alternative Title:
Sion College Chaucer
Description:
In Middle English., Annotated on f. 78 with the names "William Cooke" and "Morris Barckley.", Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: six initials in red., Library stamp: Sion College., Binding: twenty-first-century conservation binding., and Earlier binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt (stored in box 2)
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text
Alternative Title:
Devonshire Chaucer
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials., Bookplate: Chatsworth., and Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval