Dedication and preface by Josiah Boydell dated March 25, 1805; the plates are dated 1790-1804., Of the artists, Smirke, Fuseli, and Northcote contributed the largest number of plates; the others, including Reynolds, Opie, and Sothard, are represented by from one to five plates each; engraved by R. Thew, T. Ryder, P. Simon and others., Pub. in 1852 with title: The American edition of Boydell's Illustrations., Sometimes confused with"Boydell's graphic illustrations ... of Shakespeare," 1804?, a separate issue of the (samller) plates prepared for their edition of Shakespeare, 1802, which also consists of 100 plates, most of them quite different from these large plates., Title-vignettes (of Mrs. Damer's basso relievos), and Vol. I contains frontispiece (full length portrait of George III, by Sir W. Beechey) and XLVI plates, Xl to XLVI being Smirke's Seven ages; vol. II consists of frontispiece (portrait of Queen Charlotte, also by Beechey) and L plates, the last three "not engraved from the large pictures, but may be added to vol. II." These three are: Romney's "Shakespeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy," Westall's "Imogen in boy's clothes," and Josiah Boydell's "Desdemona asleep." Counting the title vignettes, 100 designs in all. cf. List of plates, v.2.
Publisher:
Pub. by John and Josiah Boydell, Shakespeare gallery, Pall-Mall, and no. 90 Cheapside, Printed by W. Bulmer and co., Cleveland-row, St. James's,
Dedication and preface by Josiah Boydell dated March 25, 1805; the plates are dated 1790-1804., Of the artists, Smirke, Fuseli, and Northcote contributed the largest number of plates; the others, including Reynolds, Opie, and Sothard, are represented by from one to five plates each; engraved by R. Thew, T. Ryder, P. Simon and others., Pub. in 1852 with title: The American edition of Boydell's Illustrations., Sometimes confused with"Boydell's graphic illustrations ... of Shakespeare," 1804?, a separate issue of the (samller) plates prepared for their edition of Shakespeare, 1802, which also consists of 100 plates, most of them quite different from these large plates., Title-vignettes (of Mrs. Damer's basso relievos), and Vol. I contains frontispiece (full length portrait of George III, by Sir W. Beechey) and XLVI plates, Xl to XLVI being Smirke's Seven ages; vol. II consists of frontispiece (portrait of Queen Charlotte, also by Beechey) and L plates, the last three "not engraved from the large pictures, but may be added to vol. II." These three are: Romney's "Shakespeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy," Westall's "Imogen in boy's clothes," and Josiah Boydell's "Desdemona asleep." Counting the title vignettes, 100 designs in all. cf. List of plates, v.2.
Publisher:
Pub. by John and Josiah Boydell, Shakespeare gallery, Pall-Mall, and no. 90 Cheapside, Printed by W. Bulmer and co., Cleveland-row, St. James's,
Written when the author was 18, partly in answer to Wollaston's Religion of nature, and addressed to Mr. J(ames) R(alph) He printed, he says, only a hundred copies, of which he gave a few to his friends; and afterwards, disliking the piece, he burnt the rest except one copy.--J. Crossley in Notes and queries, ser. 1, v.5, p. 6 (Jan. 3, 1852)l9
Mourt's relation. and Relation or Journall of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation setled at Plimoth in New England.
Description:
"A letter sent from New-England to a friend in these parts, setting forth a briefe and true declaration of the worth of that plantation ... [signed, E. W. (i.e. Edward Winslow)]": p. 60-64., "Certaine vsefvl advertisements sent in a letter written by a discreete friend vnto the planters in New England, at their first setting saile from Southampton ... [signed, I. R. (i.e. John Robinson)]": 4th-6th prelim. leaves., "Reasons & considerations touching the lawfulnesse of remouing out of England into the parts of America [signed, R. C. (i.e. Robert Cushman)]": p. 65-72., "To the reader" (3d prelim. leaf) signed: G. Movrt., Collation: Title-leaf (A2?), A3, B-L in fours., The first issue, with caption-title on p. 1 reading: New-England in America. Or A relation of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation in the north parts of America, called Nevv-England ..., and The main part of the narrative was probably written by William Bradford and Edward Winslow. G. Mourt (George Morton?) by whose name the relation is commonly known, seems to have had no other connection with it than that of writing the preface and giving the book to the press. cf. Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers. Boston, 1841, p. [109]-249.
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Printed for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop at the Two greyhounds in Cornhill neere the Royall exchange,
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Name):
Bradford, William, 1590-1657, Brinley, George, 1817-1875--Bookplate, Cushman, Robert, 1579?-1625, Morton, George, d. 1624, Robinson, John, 1575?-1625, and Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655
"A catalogue of the names of the general authors, both ancient and modern, besides later voyagers, consulted to the carrying on of this first volume": 7th prelim. leaf., Imperfect: 2 maps (Tunis and Lovando St. Paulo) wanting., In this Beinecke copy, the 1st prelimin. leaf bears text "English atlas, tome the first" and the "Catalog" is on the 8th prelim. leaf., and Title in red and black; intials; head-pieces.
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Printed by T. Johnson for the author,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Description and travel, Islands of the Atlantic, and Islands of the Indian Ocean
Subject (Name):
Boynton, Griffith--Autograph and ms notes and Hodgdon, Ernest F.--Stamp
"Arcanvm: or, The grand secret of hermetick philosophy ... The work of a concealed author [i. e. Jean d'Espagnet] ... 3d ed. amended and enlarged," has special t.p. and "To the students in chymistry" signed: Arthur Dee.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Flesher for R. Mynne,
Subject (Name):
Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692. and Espagnet, Jean d', 17th cent.