- Creator:
- Cole, Christian Frederick, author
- Published / Created:
- [1879]
- Call Number:
- Iq W378 T879
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- BEIN Iq W378 T879: Stamp, autograph, and manuscript notes of Falconer Madan. No. 1 of 2 titles bound together. and In verse.
- Publisher:
- Glaisher, Office of the "Chroncile", and Mr. T.J. Sawyerr, Freetown
- Subject (Geographic):
- Zululand (South Africa)
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Reflections on the Zulu war
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42.
- Published / Created:
- [1684?]
- Call Number:
- ENG82
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN ENG82: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. Imperfect: lacking Ace of Clubs; King of Spades, King of Clubs; 9 and 3 of Spades; 7, 6, and 4 of Hearts; 10, 8, and 3 of Diamonds; 10 of Clubs. The cards were cut unevenly., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: Indicated by "I"., CourtCards: K: King; Q: Queen; J: Knave., and Pip cards: Numbered X-II.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards, Rye House Plot, 1683, Great Britain, Politics and Government, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rye house plot
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1755]
- Call Number:
- 755.00.00.27
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- A broadside on Christopher Bullock, a tiny but fat watch and clock-maker in Suffolk; with a woodcut showing a portrait of Bullock, holding a wig in his left hand, mopping his brow with the other; with letterpress title and text, including information on other people of Suffolk including another dwarf Miss B-t-h-c-r, and a table listing market days and distances from London of towns on the road to Yarmouth, and with one vertical segment of type ornaments. See British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
- Description:
- Caption title., Woodcut of the dwarf dated 1755. See Sheila O'Connell's 'Popular Print in England' (British Museum 1999, cat.4.41) where she shows that the portrait was lifted from an etching of Jacob Powell made a year or two earlier (see British Museum cat.4.40)., Woodcut signed lower left with a italic 'g'?, and Preserved in a modern mount. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Suffolk (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Bullock, Christopher, 1708-
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Growth disorders, and Dwarfs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Suffolk wonder: or, The pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
- Creator:
- Stow, John, 1525?-1605, author
- Published / Created:
- [1580]
- Call Number:
- Osborn pa105
- Image Count:
- 1258
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Annales of England and Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present year of Christ 1580
- Description:
- BEIN 1987 303: 20 cm. Imperfect: final leaf 4G8 wanting; bled at edges with some loss of text. Few manuscript annotations throughout. Armorial bookplate of Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive., BEIN Osborn pa94: 20 cm. Manuscript pencil annotations concerning provenance; early manuscript ink annotations and corrections throughout. Ownership inscription of Margaret Barrie on page [32] at beginning indicates this book was left to her by her father Burton, read by her in 1675, and read by Oliver in 1679. Armorial bookplate of John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley. Bookplate of Michael Scott. Binder's stamp of Riviere and Son. Stamp of H. Sotheran, with explanation in manuscript that the book was actually bought from Pickering. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya., BEIN Osborn pa105: Quires ²[par.]-3[par.]⁴ (the table and errata) bound at end. Manuscript shelfmark "942" written on shelf label. Armorial bookplate of the Bishopsgate Institute, with its blind stamp on multiple pages throughout and ink stamp on title page verso, no. "1627" and classification "942" written in manuscript. Ink stamp of Quenby Library also on title page verso. Few manuscript annotations throughout, with a manuscript genealogical table on rear flyleaves in what appear to be two different hands. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya. Bound in 16th-century full English calf, with stamp: Sober Society. Accompanied by: bookseller's description (1 leaf)., "Apparently the first edition of the 'Chronicles' in the complete form"--BM., Later editions published as: Annales., Actual printer's name from STC., Signatures: [par.]⁴, ²[par.]-3[par.]⁴ A-3I⁸ 3K⁸(-3K7,8) 3L-4G⁸., Final page blank., Engraved title page showing the descent of sovereigns from Edward III., and Includes index.
- Publisher:
- By [Henry Bynneman for] Ralphe Newberie, at the assignement of Henrie Bynneman
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ 1580
45.
- Published / Created:
- [1813]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B B619 1813
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham which principally takes the form of an apology announcing that the lead of the evening's entertainment, Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), is unable to attend due to ill health. The soprano's appearance had been much publicised by the local press, hence the need to justify her absence by publishing a communication by the attending doctor
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public ...
- Description:
- Caption title. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- [J]onathan Knott, printer, Birmingham
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England), Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723., and Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public, that he received on Wednesday morning an intimation from Mr. Elliston, that Madame Catalani laboured under an indisposition of so serious a nature, that it precluded her from performing here on Friday evening ... : This present Friday, October 29, 1813, will be presented the favourite comedy of A bold stroke for a wife ... to conclude with the favourite farce of The adopted child ...
- Published / Created:
- 15th century.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.88
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an unidentified chronicle of Venetian history
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: not present. Spaces for capitals and rubrics left blank., and Bifolia later used as archival wrappers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified chronicle of Venetian history (fragment).
- Creator:
- United States Lottery
- Published / Created:
- 1776 November 18.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 902
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Printed United States Lottery ticket number 16m 069, signed Da. Jackson, 1776 November 18.
- Description:
- The Continental Congress enacted a national lottery on 1776 November 18 to raise finances for the war effort., In English., and Title from recto.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States., Philadelphia (Pa.), and United States
- Subject (Name):
- United States. Continental Congress. and United States Lottery.
- Subject (Topic):
- Finance, Public, Lotteries, War, Cost of., History, and Finance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > United States Lottery No. 16m 069 : typescript
- Published / Created:
- 1803.
- Call Number:
- Folio 63 803 C697
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- A bound volume of 32 Napoleonic broadsides, all good impressions, suggesting they were ordered directly from a publisher, possibly from James Asperne who is well represented in the collection and who perhaps made a trade in offering collections of the broadsides to contemporary collectors. Also well presented are broadsides by John Ginger
- Alternative Title:
- Patriotic handbills
- Description:
- In English., Title from dealer's description., Bound in 19th-century calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label with "Patriotic Handbills" and green morocco label with the number "II"; a sheet of writing paper bound in before the broadsides has a watermark "G. Langley 1856". With a manuscript note on the blank verso of the final broadside that states "Patriotic Handbills Packet II / I have duplicates of each bill.", With two copies of: Plain answers to plain questions, in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte., With two copies of: Britons triumph, or, Bonaparte's knell., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- multiple publishers
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Collection of Napoleonic War broadsides].