Caption title., Place of publication unidentified., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 152., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Title from item., Handbill, on card stock., Verso blank., Printed card advertising a Regency private theatrical performance. A location of London is suggested by the identity of one of the performers. "Mrs. Weippart," Penelope Weippert, née Blane (-1846), wife of John Michael Weippart (1775-1831), harpist, was a professional actress connected with the Theatre Royal on the Strand., Signed at the end: Stage carpenter, Mr. Riordan., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Colman, George, 1762-1836.
Caption title., A report on a speech of Lord Brougham, who led Queen Caroline’s defence during her trial at the House of Lords between August and November 1820., First line: This day her Majesty did not arrive in St. James's-square till twelve o-clock ..., and Partially edge-mounted. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
H. Ruff, printer
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
A layout using letterpress showing the interior of Westminster Hall, layed out for the trial of William Lord Byron for killing William Chaworth in a duel; trial was held in April 1765
Description:
Caption title. and Publication date based on date of the trial.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England). and Byron, William Byron, Baron, 1722-1798
Title from top line of text., A letter addressed to 'Madam' describing the copy and the quality of its work with attestations from the Royal family., and With three blind offical stamps on lower edge.
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Published / Created:
[after 1827]
Call Number:
File 652 F852 827
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Speech of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York in the House of Lords, April 25th, 1825
Description:
Caption title., Handbill with ornamental border, printed in gold., Possibly issued by the Protestant Union as they had a copy printed in gold on vellum for presentation to the Duke., The Duke of York declared his opposition to any Catholic concession with a speech in the House of Lords was greeted by anti-Emancipationists as the charter of their cause. Following the Duke’s intervention, emancipation for Catholics had to wait for the Catholic Relief Act passed in 1829., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: 'Cock a doodle doo.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1111.2137., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: C. Wilmot 1815.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
Caption title., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: See the mall throng'd with ladies, the gay and the fair ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Verse - "You subjects of England, come listen a while;"., In three columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Date of publication from ESTC., Mounted on leaf 64. 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:
s.n.
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
Kings and rulers, Horseback riding, Hunting, Deer, and Bloodhounds
Verse - "A worthy squire of sober life,"., Signed at foot of the second column, above the single rule: Z. [i.e. Hannah More], Entered in the Stationers’ Register 26 June 1797, according to G.H. Spinney, "Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition" (in Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), no. 102). Spinney does not record a broadside edition., The illustration is from the same block as that on the title page of the pamphlet edition of the same work (ESTC T37463), issued in Hannah More’s Cheap Repository., In two columns, with title and illustration above both columns, at foot of the second column, below a single rule, in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Mounted on leaf 68. 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:
s.n.
Subject (Name):
Adam (Biblical figure) and Eve (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Sparrows, Fall of man, Birds, Windows, Tableware, Table settings & decorations, and Tablecloths