Manuscript, on vellum, containing the text of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, including Baruch, with prologues and commentary. The extensive gloss surrounds the centered Biblical text
Description:
In Latin., Layout: Biblical text centered, single column, variable length; surrounding gloss written in double columns of 65-75 lines., Script: gothic script. Letters in Biblical text larger than in glosses., Decoration: 18 small historiated initials and approximately 30 other illuminated initials; numerous blue and red penwork initials with red or lilac penwork decoration; rubricated., and Binding: modern blind-stamped red morocco gilt, by Riviere.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 1: Inscribed: R.F. Wright, Esq. Bookseller's stamp: Pocock, bookseller, Bridge Street, Bath., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 2: Variant final gathering in pt. 6. Inscribed: C.H. Lattimore, Esq. Inscribed: Mary of Normanby., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 3: Reconstructed copy. Imperfect: p. 157-168 wanting from pt. 10; t.p. for v. 3 wanting from pt. 20; wrapper wanting from pt. 8., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 4: Parts 3 and 11, all else wanting. Bookseller's label: Weekly & monthly publications ... George Young, 9, Suffolk-street, Dublin., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens A50 5: Bound in 4 v. with preliminaries preceding text in each v. Front wrappers from one original weekly number and one monthly part bound in. Extra-illustrated by 32 pencil-and-wash copies by H.K. Browne of the engravings and 70 plates of Sibson's extra etchings. Binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son. Bookplates of Cortlandt F. Bishop and Lewis A. Hird., BEIN Dickens +840Me: Part 5 only, all else wanting., Issued in 20 monthly parts from April, 1840, to Nov., 1841, in numbered and dated wrappers and with advertising matter. Title pages and preliminaries for 3 vols. appear in parts 6, 12, and 20. (Also issued in 88 weekly numbers and 3 v. set.), Wrapper title: Master Humphrey's clock / by "Boz" ... ; with illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne., and Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge".
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A49 2: Inscribed: James M. Call. Original wrappers., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A49 4: Reconstructed copy with many leaves of text from later impressions. Wrappers for many numbers wanting., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A49 5: No. 7 only. Original wrappers., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens A49 6: Bound in 3 v. with preliminaries preceding text in each v. Three original wrappers and eight plates of H.K. Browne's extra etchings bound in. Binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son. Bookplate: Omnia probate bonum tenete., BEIN Dickens 840Mb Copy 2: Bound in 3 v. with preliminaries preceding text in each v. Imperfect: "Preface to Barnaby Rudge" wanting. Original wrapper of no. 20 bound in. Bookplate of Edward George Herbert., BEIN Dickens +840M Copy 2: Nos. 1-3, 57 only. Original wrappers., BEIN Dickens +840Ma: Unbound sheets; without wrappers. Imperfect: t.p. for v. 1 and dedication wanting., Issued in 88 weekly numbers from April 4, 1840, to Nov. 27, 1841, in numbered and dated wrappers and with advertising matter. First and last leaves of each gathering serve as wrappers. Title pages and preliminaries for 3 vols. appear in nos. 26, 52, and 88. (Also issued in 20 monthly parts and 3 v. set.), Wrapper title: Master Humphrey's clock / by "Boz" ... ; with illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne., and Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge".
A collection of portraits, clippings, playbills, Horace Walpole's bookplate (State 1), miniatures and letters (now shelved separately), and a lock of hair (also shelved separately) all related to Horace Walpole and his villa Strawberry Hill; all bound or laid in a volume. A brief one page biography of Horace Walpole printed with the incorrect year of birth, ends: "He died a martyr to the gout March 2, 1797"-- "Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, born in the year 1716. The younger son of Sir Robert Walpole ...". Laid in prints include a view "North front of Strawberry-Hill / Barlow del. et sculp." Portraits include: Horatio Earl of Orford; Thos. Kirgate; Duchesse de Choiseul and Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Françoise Marguerite de Sevigné, Comtesse de Grignan; Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Mme. de Sévigné; Miss Berry; Mme. de Maintenon; Madme. de Maintenon, from the original in the Versailles Gallery; Mary Magdalen, wife of Horatio Lord Walpole; Horatio Lord Walpole from an original by Vanloo at Strawberry Hill; Honble. Anne Damer from an original in the possession of the Right Honble. Genl. Conway; Field Marshall Conway; The Honble. Horace Walpole from a picture by Eckardt in the Collection at Strawberry Hill; Horace Walpole and Miss Walpole, two minatures by Zincke. Also mounted or laid in are the bookplates of Mrs. Damer and Horace Walpole. Two theatre programs, one dated November 1800, for a performance of The old Maid and Intriguing Chambermaid and the other dated November 1801 for a performance of Fashionable friends and Lover's quarrels and Also laid in where a lock of Mme de Maintenon's hair had been fixed (now removed): a letter in Paget Toynbee's hand describing Horace Walpole's two accounts of how he came to possession of a letter of Madame de Maintenon
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill rarities
Description:
Title stamped in gilt-lettering on front cover., Bound in brown morocco with gold tooling by Riviere & Son; stamped on inside front cover., With a list of items removed and shelved separately; other notes written on the pages indicate what other items were removed and where they were filed at the time of dispersal., and Digitized pages with materials, skipping blank pages. Manuscripts removed and now filed in LWL MSS 36. For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
BEIN Ih Sh24 607fd: Bookplates: Arbury Library; John Camp Williams. Binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son., Eliz 296: Imperfect: leaves [superscript chi]D1 and D1 wanting. No. 4 of 8 titles bound together in mid 17th century calf with spine title: Plays, XVII Cent. Numerous inscriptions and autographs of owners, and perhaps borrowers, on front free endpaper and final page: Henry Rookes, Richard Rookes, Barzillay Jones, Humphrey East, Richard Hatton, Morris Bowen, William Slade, John Lorker, Robert Wadman., Printed by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet., "This piece is to some extent dependent on Parasitaster"--Greg., and Signatures: A² B-C⁴, [superscript chi]D1(=H4) D-G⁴ H⁴(-H4).
Publisher:
Printed by B.A. and T.F. for Nath. Butter, and are to bee sold at his shop at the Pyde Bull at Saint Augustines Gate