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- Published / Created:
- ca.1815-1820
- Call Number:
- Osborn fd5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in mutliple hands, of a collection of several hundred riddles, acrostics, and rebuses, lighthearted poems primarily on female behavior, and several dozen hand-colored satirical engravings and newspaper clippings pasted in. Poem titles include Female loquacity; An excellent new song written for a masquerade at Edinburgh; Epitaph on a talkative woman; and Chit-chat at a country ball. The engravings primarily satirize social subjects, while the newspaper clippings include brief biographies of nobility; a survey of the mail in South America; a poem by George Tucker of Virginia; a chart portraying the expenditure on in "all the Christian world"; and several clippings on the votes of Parliamentary members in Ireland and England on whether to let Catholics sit in Parliament. A number of the riddles involve musical notation. Many of the entries have been decorated and colored.
- Description:
- Binding: half black morocco over machine-grain morocco-covered boards. Front cover missing., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In modern hand in pencil on flyleaf: Prob originating in Ireland (Plunkett family). Probably compiled by Lady Harriet Plunkett., and Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Topic):
- Acrostics., Catholics--Ireland--Politics and government., English poetry--19th century., English wit and humor., Engravings, British., Rebuses., Riddles., Verse satire, English., Women authors., and Women--Conduct of life.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca.1815-1820].
- Creator:
- Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698
- Published / Created:
- [1677?]
- Call Number:
- 1978 748
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Bound as a commonplace book with blank
- Publisher:
- And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping: and by John Hills in Exchange Alley in Cornhill, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Almanacs, English and Astronomy --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A pocket book, containing severall choice collections in arithmetick [!], astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gaugeing. By John Seller ...
- Creator:
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
- Published / Created:
- 1794-1812
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 527
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
- Description:
- Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books and reading--Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812.
- Creator:
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
- Published / Created:
- 1794-1812
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 527
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
- Description:
- Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books and reading--Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812.