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- Creator:
- More, Hannah, 1745-1833
- Published / Created:
- [1795 or 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Cheap Repository
- Description:
- Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
- Subject (Topic):
- Candles, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Reading
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dame Andrews : a ballad
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1748]
- Call Number:
- File 66 748 J65+++
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Letterpress broadside with a hand-colored etched and engraved header illustrating the use of a fire-engine at the site of the Cornhill fire, which occurred on 25 March 1748
- Description:
- Caption title from letterpress text. and Annotations on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Fire engines and Fire extinction
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Bristow, engine-maker, to all His Majesty's forts, garrisons, dock-yards and other public offices belonging to His Majesty's Royal Navy ...
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- Published / Created:
- [1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.05.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- imagea and text
- Description:
- Caption title., With an etching below the title and above the letterpress text, signed "G. Cruikshank fect." showing John Bellingham in the act of assassinating Spencer Perceval. Plate mark: 58 x 104 mm., and Mounted to: 46 x 17 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by John Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill, facing the Old Bailey and Maurice Printer, Howford-buildings, Fenchurch-Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812., Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Bellingham, John, 1770-1812
- Subject (Topic):
- Assassination, Prime ministers, Politics and government, and Assassinations
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monumental inscription on the departed minister!! : within this mausoleum lie entombed the mortal remains of Spencer Perceval ...
- Published / Created:
- [between 1736 and 1763?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Text begins: There are five strange wonders in the world. To hear a lawyer tell truth, to see a prodigal turn thrifty ..., In three columns with the title and four woodcuts above all columns; the columns are not separated by rules; the imprint is at the foot of the third column, below a single rule., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where may be had, the greatest choice of histories, old and new ballads, patters, &c. better printed than at any other place., Mounted on leaf 44. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Maxims, Horseback riding, Tobacco pipes, Dogs, Butcher shops, and Fans (Accessories)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The five strange wonders of the world
- Published / Created:
- [1720?]
- Call Number:
- 720.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Engraved broadside with six stanzas of verse, 2 staves of music for flute at the bottom of sheet, and an illustration above title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1720.
- Publisher:
- Sold by J. Lyne at [the] Globe in Newgate Street
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The old man's wish : to the tune of the Old woman's wish
- Creator:
- Forrest, Theodosius, 1728-1784, author
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1762?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below image., The illustration is by Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works. No. 180, v. 1, p. 202-204., First line of first recitative: Twas at the gates of Calais, Hogarth tells, where sad despair and famine always dwell ..., Date based on Tringham's location at Royal Exchange. The first recorded edition of Theodosius Forrest's cantata printed below, is 1759., Three columns of verses alternating Recitative and Air., and On page 145 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Tringham, under the North Piazza of the Royal Exchange, in Threadneedle-Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The roast beef of Old England : a cantata
- Creator:
- Townshend, John, Lord, author
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- File 646 788 T753
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- A Westminster election handbill., Caption title., First line of text: Gentlemen, I beg leave to return you my best thanks for the liberal and spirited support I received from you this day., Signed and dated at end: John Townshend. Bentinck-Street, July 18, 1788., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., and Westminster (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1788 and Elections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To the worthy and independent electors of Westminster