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- Published / Created:
- [1757]
- Call Number:
- File 52 C149 757++
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757
- Description:
- Caption title., At head of title, in upper left: Norfolk., Not in ESTC., and Signed beneath printed text by "Israel Long Esq., Sheriff". Contemporary ms. annotations in black ink along left margin of recto; docket title added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Davy, by order of the goaler
- Subject (Geographic):
- Norfolk (England) and England
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Prisoners
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A calendar, or List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757 : the times of their commitments, their several crimes, and by whom committed
3.
- Creator:
- Brooke, Ralph, 1553-1625, author
- Published / Created:
- 1622.
- Call Number:
- 53 C67B B79
- Image Count:
- 207
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2L⁶., First leaf is blank., With final contents leaf., First edition 1619., Printed by William Stansby. See E.E. Willoughby. A printer of Shakespeare, 1934., Title page variant: author's name incorrectly spelled "Raphe"., Title-page inscribed: G. Dury, Esq. [17th century hand?], Imperfect: Preliminary blank leaf A₁ wanting., and Formerly laid in: William Roberts Gichard "Commemorative English and French heraldry keepsake". See Lewis Walpole Library 53 C67B B79x
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Stansby
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Nobility
- Subject (Topic):
- Heraldry and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeere 1622 : Together with their armes, wiues, and children; the times of their deaths and burials, with many of their memorable actions
- Creator:
- Skinner and Co. (London, England)
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- 49 3902
- Image Count:
- 113
- Description:
- Signatures: pi⁴, A-2A⁴., At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage., LWL 49 3902: With "No." on t.p. with "753" in ms. 2000 catalogues were sold before the sale began., LWL 49 3902: Horace Walpole's copy with his annotations, including a four-page, signed letter providing a history of the collection., and Original marbled boards with calf back, now rebacked. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron used as Bookplate, and fleuron from Anecdotes at end. Press-mark X.7. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
- Publisher:
- Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Library and Catalogs, Booksellers'
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday, the 24th of April 1786 ...
5.
- Creator:
- Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1755]
- Call Number:
- 125 L278 755 3/11
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
- Publisher:
- Abraham Langford
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, Great Britain, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid
6.
- Creator:
- Edwards, A.
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 80
- Image Count:
- 65
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Holograph catalogue of Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield's library at Ethrope. The manuscript begins with an explanation of the shelving system at the library, followed by an index to the volume which divides the work by book size and language. The entries for each book include information about their shelving position and date published, and include historical, scientific, artistic, and literary works, as well as works on law and architecture. Holdings include biblical commentaries; John Dryden's plays; poems by Stephen Duck; numerous collections of prints and drawings, including William Hogarth's Collection of Prints and Darly's Collection of Caricatures; dictionaries in English, Italian, and French; Thomas Betterton's History of the English stage; and Horace Walpole's History of the royal and noble authors. The manuscript also includes several collections of musical works, including Cervetto's 6 Solos for the violincello and bass
- Description:
- In English., A note in the preface declares that "this Catalogue was taken in June 1778 by A. Edwards, no. 79 New Bond St. London.", Title from title page., Marbled endpapers., Binding: full red morocco. In gilt on spine: Catalogue Of The Library At Ethrope., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710., Cervetto, Giacobbe, 1682-1783., Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1755-1815., Darly, Matthias., Dryden, John, 1631-1700., Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756., Edwards, A., Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Collectors and collecting, Nobility, Books and reading, Private libraries, and Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the library of the right honble earl of Chesterfield, at Ethrope, Bucks., 1778 Jun
- Published / Created:
- [between 1791 and 1803?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a penny-worth of wit"., Printed in five columns with the title and imprint above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Full stop at end of title and no punctutation at end of the first line of verse., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 13. 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:
- Printed and sold by J. Evans and Co. 41 Long-lane West-Smithfield
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Husband and wife, Adultery, Merchants, and Wealth
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A choice pennyworth of wit
- Published / Created:
- [between 1736 and 1763?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a pennyworth of wit,"., In five columns with the title above the first two and imprint below the last two; the columns are not separated by rules., Full stop at end of title., 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., Mounted on leaf 12. 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:
- Printed and sold in Bow-Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Husband and wife, Adultery, Merchants, and Wealth
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A choice pennyworth of wit
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [1774?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3588 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 86
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
- Description:
- Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British and Landscapes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created:
- [1774?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3588 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
- Description:
- Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, British and Landscapes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].