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- Published / Created:
- [1770?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Date of publication from ESTC., First line of text: "The Right. Hon. the Speaker -"., In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by a rule., Refers to Mr. Wilkes's 'History of England', vol. 1 of which was published in 1768, and to "Sermons for young women, in 2 vol. 12mo.", which may be a reference to James Fordyce's collection, which went into a large number of editions in 1766 and 1767., A selection of statements on contemporary events, made ridiculous by their association with other events., Mounted on leaf 35. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Wit and humor and Reading
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A continuation of the humorous effects of cross-reading the news-papers
3.
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1742?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Date of publication from internal evidence: a reference to the modern lady reading "Hoyle", presumably one of Edmond Hoyle’s books on whist or another game, the first of which was published in 1742., Text in two sections: "Lady in Q. Elizabeth's time" and "Modern fine lady". First line begins: "Five o'clock.--Get up an hour sooner than usual"., Possibly a fragment or detached from larger work., In two columns with title centered above both; columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 14. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Wit and humor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A country lady's journal, inthe days of Q. Elizabeth, contrasted with one of a modern fine lady of the present year
- Creator:
- Puzzle-cause, Oliver
- Published / Created:
- [between 1775 and 1790?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- A joke letter; at end is added: "From such examples as of this and that, we are all taught to know - I know not what"., In this edition the title is in two lines; the first line reads "William having received a letter"; the last two paragraphs are set in smaller type than the rest, clearly in order to fit the page., First line: "Sir. William having received a letter", In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by rules. In this edition the title is in two lines., Oliver Puzzle-cause is a pseudonym., Below signature in second column: Price three half-pence., Mounted on leaf 59. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Topic):
- English wit and humor
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause
- Creator:
- Philoinvestigists Society
- Published / Created:
- [1781?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- The device is printed above the title and signed: Thos. Mitchell inv. et del. ; I. Russel sculp., Incorporated within the device: "Philoinvestigists Society Aug. 1781.", In one column with etching and title centered above and enclosed in ornamental border., Text within design: Study to follow natures laws from each effect to trace its cause; nature and art a fund supplies to make men moral good and wise., Also known as "Hampstead Philoinvestigists Society"; founded as a philanthropic organization., Mounted on leaf 23. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Secret societies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Explanation of the device
6.
- Published / Created:
- [1814?]
- Call Number:
- 814.00.00.42+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- An anti-Napoleon broadside including an engraved, cartographic bust of Napoleon above two columns of letterpress in Dutch, German, English and French. The face of Napoleon is formed of carcases of war victims: on the collar are waves of the sea; a "hand" is placed as the epaulet while on the cuff is 'R' (for Regent), round the wrist 'Honi Soit ', on the fingers are the letters 'A', 'R', 'P', 'S', 'E' (for the Allies). A drawing the Rhenish Confedracy [sic] under the flimsy symbol of the cobweb: and the "spider" is a symbolic emblem of the vigilance of the Allies
- Description:
- Title from letterpress caption above text., The name "Napoleon" appears four times below image, above each section in Dutch, English, French, and German. Text in English begins: The first, and last, by the wrath of Heaven Emperor of the Jacobins ..., Engraved image of Napoleon: plate mark 22.7 x 15.9 cm., The satirical Napoleon portrait is a copy of the original by Voltz; Cf. No. 12177 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Place and date of publication based on English-language version of the print published in London by Ackermann in 1814; Cf. No. 12202 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arcimboldesque figures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Napoleon
- Published / Created:
- [1755?]
- Call Number:
- 755.00.00.07+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A broadside on the British failure to retaliate against French forces in America, with the ghost of Oliver Cromwell addressing the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Anson and Henry Fox (subsequently Lord Holland) and drawing attention to the achievements of Admiral Blake in the previous century; with an etching showing the profile of a bust of Cromwell looking to the right; with letterpress title and text in four columns."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Letterpress title above portrait., Publication date from the British Museum catalogue., The bust portrait of Cromwell in profile with plate mark 14.6 x 14.5 cm., and Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark in the lower.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Name):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658,, Blake, Robert, 1599-1657., William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765., Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762., and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Oliver Cromwell's ghost [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Cockney's journey on the 1st of September
- Description:
- Date of publication supplied by cataloger., First line: "September 1st. According to our agreement made"., In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are separated by a rule., Mounted on leaf 47. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The London sportsmen, or, The cockney's journey on the 1st of September
- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Date of publication from ESTC., First line: "Sir, I have herewith sent you a description of Christ Church, given me by a person who is not thoroughly"., In two columns with the title in four lines centered above both; the columns are not separated by rules., The letter is written in dialect., Mounted on leaf 56. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The north countryman's description of Christ Church, Dublin : in a letter from a gentleman in Ireland, to his friend in London
- Published / Created:
- [between 1782 and 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Dissertation on our latter end
- Description:
- Title from first line of text., Date of publication based on events described in text., Part of the text from New foundling hospital for wit; a clipping from a newspaper?, Mounted on leaf 37. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Whereas most people are subject to the piles, just published, A dissertation on our latter end