Title from item., Date based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 151 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Date based on Sir Philip Sydenham's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 151 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Date from annotation in brown ink in upper right corner: Apr. 29th, 1758., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 159 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; addressed to "Mr. Gowers, coachmaker ..." on verso.
Morrison, Bewley Wynne, active 1750-1775, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Title continues: Dinner to be on table by 3 o'clock. Thomas Cooke, President, Samuel Way, Vice President, John Colborne, Samuel Ames, Samuel Colborne, John Slade, William Dobson, William Loader, Stewards. Tickets 5s., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 159 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Dated in lower left: Nov. 17, 1817., Single sheet handbill, printed within mourning border, announcing of the postponement of the national lottery due to the death of Princess Charlotte., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering)., A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7., Layout: single column, 16-19 lines., Script: contemporary Anglicana hand., Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon., and Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty