- Published / Created:
- [1818]
- Call Number:
- File 63 818 On58++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- One hundred fifty claimants to the throne of Great Britain
- Description:
- Caption title., Letterpress text discussing the line of succession above an etched geneological chart (plate mark 27.9 x 26.5 cm) which illustrates the line of succession, following the reign of George IV, probably published in response to the death of Princess Charlotte in 1817 and before the birth of Victoria in 1819. However, the text also references "the present Princess of Wales", but further evidence that this was issued in response to her death is the dark black border around her name., and Imprint etched at top of chart. Date from letterpress: "The following is a brief sketch. A.D. 1818."
- Publisher:
- Printed & publish'd by W. Finch, No. 5 Charlotte Place, New Cut, Lower Marsh, Lambeth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Kings and rulers and Succession
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > 150 claimants to the throne of Great Britain
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- Creator:
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1831]
- Call Number:
- 831.00.00.34+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 1831 by S. Gans, Southampton Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A boarding-school-miss taking an evening lesson!! [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1755]
- Call Number:
- 125 L278 755 3/11
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
- Publisher:
- Abraham Langford
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, Great Britain, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid
- Published / Created:
- Jan. 11, 1729-30.
- Call Number:
- File 53 W169 C785
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Satirical handbill offering a reward for the apprehension of the "said Coachman," said by Narcissus Luttrell to be an attack on Sir Robert Walpole. and Ms. notes (unidentified calculations) on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identfied
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A copy of the paper dropt in St. James's Park, or, A hue and cry after a coachman
- Creator:
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1830]
- Call Number:
- 830.00.00.96+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from title page of series., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., Number two in a series of prints with variant series name on title page and later prints: Tregear's scraps., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published 1830 by G. Tregear, Cheapside
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A fancy ball [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1680 and 1710?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules., Date range conjectural; other ballads with similar imprints are also undated; printer’s name conjectured from other imprints recorded by Wing., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In this setting line 24 begins with "straight"., Not in Wing., Mounted on leaf 52. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1., and Sheet in two pieces repaired and mounted as one piece.
- Publisher:
- Printed by and for C.B. [Brown?] and sold by J. Walter, at the Hand and Pen in High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Late epistle to Mr. Cleveland and Cabin council
- Description:
- Title from first line of letterpress below image., Publisher identified from address., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford Market in the Strand."--Bottom of sheet., "Pr. 6d."--Bottom of plate., Broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet. Title on etching: Cabin council., Mock paraphrase of Admiral Byng's letter to John Cleveland, Admiralty., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: cabin on Ramillies (admiral's ship) -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Furnishings: porcelain -- Guns: cannons -- 2nd Earl of Effingham -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., and Watermark: countermark I V.
- Publisher:
- Edwards & Darly
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757 and Cornwallis, Edward, 1713-1776
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A late epistle to Mr. C------d.
- Published / Created:
- MDCCXLIII [1743]
- Call Number:
- 49 1608 v.18
- Image Count:
- 29
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Letter on the abuse of Scripture terms
- Description:
- With half-title., Last page blank., "(Price six-pence)"--Below imprint., One of the "performances" is [Horace Walpole's] Lessons for the day.--cf. pages 13., Lewis Walpole Library 49 1608 18:4: Horace Walpole's title: Letter on the abuse of Scripture terms., and Mottled calf, with Horace Walpole's manuscript list of contents.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A letter to - -, concerning the abuse of Scripture-terms: occasion'd by some late extraordinary performances
- Published / Created:
- [between 1741? and 1748]
- Call Number:
- 741.00.00.19
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- A satirical broadside, with two vignettes of the "Weaver". On the left the weaver is at his loom his back to his wife who is seated at the hearth warming her hands over the fire. On the right he is shown in the disguise of a Friar receiving his wife for confession as she kneels before him. Two columns of verse below: "A weaver jealous of his wife like many, Still dream't of horns before the Knave had any ... Twas you were the young man the old man & [the] Fryer. Finis."
- Alternative Title:
- Weaver jealous of his wife like many, Still dream't of horns before the Knave had any ...
- Description:
- Title from engraved text above image., All engraved., Date from British Book Trade Index., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With "Pro Patria" watermark.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by Samuel Lyne, map and printseller at the Globe in Newgate Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Weavers, Looms, Fireplaces, Confessions, Costumes, and Monks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A merry tale of the jealous weaver [graphic].
10.
- Creator:
- Howard, H. (Henry), author
- Published / Created:
- [July 1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
- Description:
- Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
- Publisher:
- Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and Songs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new humorous song on the Cherokee chiefs inscribed to the ladies of Great Britain, to the tune of, Caesar and Pompey were both of the horned / [graphic]