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2101.
The creed of the Egyptians

Published / Created:
[1753]
Call Number:
Quarto 523 C16 N266
Collection Title:
Tracts respecting Elizabeth Canning.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761., Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773, and Squires, Mary, -1762
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Perjury) and Trials (Robbery)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The creed of the Egyptians

2103.
The drunkard's wive's [sic] resolution & answer

Published / Created:
[between 1802 and 1819]
Call Number:
File 763 802 D795+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Drunkard's wive's resolution & answer
Drunkard's wive's resolution and answer
Drunkard's wife's resolution and answer
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, No. 14, Great S[t.] Andrew-street, Seven-Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Couples, Families, and Intoxication
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The drunkard's wive's [sic] resolution & answer

2104.
The dying speech and confession life, character, and behaviour, of the unfortunate malefactors

Published / Created:
[1788]
Call Number:
File 52 D996 788
Image Count:
3
Description:
Date of imprint based year of the executions.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Clarey, David, -1788., James, William, -1788., Grace, Jeremiah, -1788., and Sullivan, Margaret, -1788.
Subject (Topic):
Crime, Criminals, Executions and executioners, Burning at the stake, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The dying speech and confession life, character, and behaviour, of the unfortunate malefactors, executed this day before the debtors door, Newgate

2105.
The dying speech and confession, life, character, and behaviour of the unfortunate malefactors

Published / Created:
[1788]
Call Number:
File 52 D99 788
Image Count:
3
Description:
Date from report on sessions held 25 June 1788.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Long-Lane, West Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Riley, Thomas, -1788., Warner, Samuel, -1788., Davis, John, 1788-1878., and Chatwin, William, -1788.
Subject (Topic):
Crime, Criminals, Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The dying speech and confession, life, character, and behaviour of the unfortunate malefactors executed this day before the debtors door, Newgate

2106.
The fair maid of Islington

Published / Created:
[1750?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse - "There was a lass of Islington,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. - In this edition "Islington" is in capitals.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Prostitution, Man-woman relationships, Courts, Law and legislation, and Petitory actions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fair maid of Islington

2107.
The fair maid of the west; who sold her maidenhead for a high-crown'd hat

Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse - "I pray attend unto this jest,". - In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Defloration, Prostitution, Man-woman relationships, Young women, Conduct of life, Clothing and dress, Social aspects, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fair maid of the west; who sold her maidenhead for a high-crown'd hat

2108.
The false lover rewarded, : to the tune of, My love she does slight me &c.

Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
In three columns with a woodcut of a man and a woman, and the title, above all of the columns; the columns are separated by lines of ornamental type.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Unrequited love, Man-woman relationships, Monsters, Betrayal, Wealth, Social aspects, and Revenge
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The false lover rewarded, : to the tune of, My love she does slight me &c.

2109.
The farmer's courtship; or, The Mitcham widow

Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Mitcham widow
Description:
Verse - "At Mitcham town did dwell".
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Unrequited love, Man-woman relationships, Clothing and dress, social aspects, Courtship, Lifestyle, and Wealth
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The farmer's courtship; or, The Mitcham widow

2110.
The fawkners' glasse

Published / Created:
[between 1590 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 100
Image Count:
58
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of The Fawkners' Glasse
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Falconry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The fawkners' glasse

2111.
The feather'd fair in a fright [graphic]

Published / Created:
[July 1777?]
Call Number:
777.07.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a landscape setting, two young women fashionably attired, and with their elaborate hairstyles adorned with ostrich plumes, flee towards the left pursued by two angry and plucked ostriches. The foremost bird lunges at the feathers on the head of one...
Alternative Title:
Feathered fair in a fright
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Ostriches, Animal attacks, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The feather'd fair in a fright [graphic]

2112.
The five strange wonders of the world

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 ...
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

2113.
The following letter printed in the Gazetteer this day, is submitted to the consideration of the

Published / Created:
August 10, 1754.
Call Number:
Quarto 523 C16 N266
Collection Title:
Tracts respecting Elizabeth Canning.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Copy of a letter concerning George Squire’s examination, &c. on Canning’s trial
Description:
Drop-head title.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Perjury)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The following letter printed in the Gazetteer this day, is submitted to the consideration of the public

2114.
The following letter printed in the Gazetteer this day, is submitted to the consideration of the

Published / Created:
August 2, 1754.
Call Number:
Quarto 523 C16 N266
Collection Title:
Tracts respecting Elizabeth Canning.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Copy of a letter concerning George Squire’s examination, &c. on Canning’s trial
Description:
Drop-head title.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Perjury)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The following letter printed in the Gazetteer this day, is submitted to the consideration of the public

2115.
The fortunate lover, or, The old man out-witted

Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Old man out-witted
Description:
Date from ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Fathers and daughters, Sex roles, Disguise, Man-woman relationships, Courtship, Lifestyle, Impressment, Cruelty, Love, Sailing ships, Castles & palaces, and Country life
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fortunate lover, or, The old man out-witted

2116.
The four Indian kings : in two parts

Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Redemption, Unrequited love, Lifestyle, Social classes, Kings, Scepters, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The four Indian kings : in two parts

2117.
The funeral procession of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [graphic].

Published / Created:
May 6th, 1751.
Call Number:
751.05.06.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A panoramic view of the procession at head and foot, with each group numbered to a key at the bottom of the woodcut. Mounted in the center is an engraving of Prince Frederick by George Vertue. Further vignettes of the 'Procession from Leicester House'...
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate.
Publisher:
Published by T. Doverson, copper plate printer in Green Arbour Court near Little Old Bailey, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Funeral processions, Hearses, Lying in state, Princes, and Mourning clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The funeral procession of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [graphic].

2118.
The garland of trials

Published / Created:
[1795?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Seduction, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Parent and child, and Fathers and daughters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The garland of trials

2119.
The good-man of Auchter muchty; or the wife turned good-man. Giving a merry account how the good

Published / Created:
[1770?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
The goodman of Auchtermuchty
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Broadsides, Farmers, House cleaning, Husband and wife, Man-woman relationships, and Sex role
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The good-man of Auchter muchty; or the wife turned good-man. Giving a merry account how the good-man was fitted to his mind. Tune of, Pultring poverty

2120.
The hen peckt husband [graphic].

Published / Created:
10 June 1776.
Call Number:
776.06.10.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A tailor, wincing in pain, drops his shears as his bare-breasted wife, wearing only her chemise and cap, beats him with a shoe
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Husband abuse, Abused husbands, Couples, Tailors, Fighting, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The hen peckt husband [graphic].

2121.
The honour of a London 'prentice : being an account of his matchless manhood and brave adventures

Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse begins: "Of a worthy London 'prentice".
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Turkey
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Poetry, and Description and travel
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The honour of a London 'prentice : being an account of his matchless manhood and brave adventures in Turkey

2123.
The humours of rag fair, or, The countryman's description of their several trades and callings

Published / Created:
[between 1717 and 1768?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Countryman's description of their several trades and callings
Description:
Verse begins: "Last week in Lent I came to town".
Publisher:
James Abree?
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fairs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The humours of rag fair, or, The countryman's description of their several trades and callings

2124.
The jovial batchelor

Published / Created:
[ca. 1775?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse begins: "My friend I would have you take my advice,".
Publisher:
Sold at Sympson's printing-office, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Bachelors, Single women, Men, Social life and customs, Eating & drinking, Driniking vessels, Tobacco pipes, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The jovial batchelor

2125.
The king and the forester

Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse - "You subjects of England, come listen a while;".
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
Kings and rulers, Horseback riding, Hunting, Deer, and Bloodhounds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The king and the forester

2126.
The lady's garland

Published / Created:
[1750?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Elopement, Parent and child, and Man-woman relationships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The lady's garland

2127.
The last good night of the valiant Johnny Armstrong: shewing, how Johnny Armstrong, and his eight

Published / Created:
[1775?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Johnny Armstrong's last goodnight
Description:
Verse - "Is there never a man in all Scotland,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by plain rules.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Armstrong, John, d. 1528
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, War, Battle casualties, Soldiers, Armies, and History
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The last good night of the valiant Johnny Armstrong: shewing, how Johnny Armstrong, and his eight-score men fought a desperate and bloody battle with the Scottish king at Edinburgh city: and how he and all his valiant men were slain. To an excellent north country tune

2128.
The last speech, confession, and dying words of a Queen Ann's guinea : who was tried and condemned

Published / Created:
[1774?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Guinea (Coin), Coinage, Law and legislation, and Economic conditions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The last speech, confession, and dying words of a Queen Ann's guinea : who was tried and condemned on a late Act of Parliament, for being too light and executed by the unmerciful hands of a butcher in, Salisbury market

2129.
The life and death of the Duke of Berwick

Published / Created:
[between 1736 and 1763?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse: Assist me ye muses, I pray lend your aid.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of, 1670-1734 and Shore, Jane, -1527?.
Subject (Topic):
War, Death, Battle casualities, and Heroes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The life and death of the Duke of Berwick

2131.
The loyal lovers: or, Carmarthen tragedy

Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Carmarthen tragedy
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Merchants, Criminal behavior, Love, Letter-writing, Charity, Man-woman relationships, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The loyal lovers: or, Carmarthen tragedy

2132.
The merchant's son; and The beggar-wench of Hull

Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 Ol1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse - "You gallants all I pray draw near ..."
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Disguise, Man-woman relationships, Begging, Taverns (Inns), Robbery, Rogues and vagabonds, Horses, Doors & doorways, and Beggars
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The merchant's son; and The beggar-wench of Hull

2133.
The merry broomfield, or, The west country wager. To a new tune. Licens'd according to order

Published / Created:
[between 1711 and 1769]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
West country wager
Description:
Verse - "A noble young 'squire that liv'd in the west,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by ornamental rules.
Publisher:
printed and sold by John White, in Pilgrim-street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Songs, English, Joking, Man-woman relationships, Sex, Wagers, Hunting, Bows (Archery), Arrows, and Deer
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The merry broomfield, or, The west country wager. To a new tune. Licens'd according to order

2135.
The midnight messenger, or, A sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave : in a dialogue

Published / Created:
[1775?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave
Description:
Verse begins: "Thou wealthy man of large possessions here,".
Publisher:
Printed and sol by J. Evans, 41 Long-Lane
Subject (Topic):
Death, Religious aspects, Christianity, Songs, English, Ballads, English, Dialogues, English, Skeletons, Hourglasses, and Arrows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The midnight messenger, or, A sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave : in a dialogue between death and a rich man, who, in the midst of all his wealth, received the tidings of his last day, to his unspeakable and sorrowful lamentations. Tune- aim not too high &c.

2136.
The miraculous farmer, or, No cock like the west-country cock

Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
No cock like the west-country cock
Description:
Verse - "You women in city and country I pray". - In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Husband and wife, Pregnancy, Adultery, Domestics, Men, Sexual behovior, Women, Sexual behavior, Sex, Farmers, Astrology, and Physicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The miraculous farmer, or, No cock like the west-country cock

2137.
The multiplication table, or a Juvenile musical improvement in arithmetic

Published / Created:
[ca. 1790]
Call Number:
Quarto 74 782 M961
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
notated music
Alternative Title:
Multiplication table, or A juvenile musical improvement in arithmetic
Twice 2 is 4
Description:
Caption title from page 1.
Publisher:
Printed by Longman and Broderip, No. 26, Cheapside and No. 13 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Mathematics, Study and teaching (Early childhood), Games with music, and Instruction and study
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The multiplication table, or a Juvenile musical improvement in arithmetic

2138.
The new fashioned phaeton sic itur ad astra. [graphic]

Published / Created:
22d Feby. 1776.
Call Number:
776.02.22.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Phaeton and pair are stopped outside a town house, the box of the conveyance raised on an accordion-like mechanism to enable a lady to climb in from the second storey window. She is fashionably dressed with huge ostrich feathers in her enormous headdr...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Balconies, Horses, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The new fashioned phaeton sic itur ad astra. [graphic]

2139.
The new manual and platoon exercises, as practised by His Majesty's Army [graphic]

Published / Created:
published 2 Jan 1795.
Call Number:
63 N532 795
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A military-drill aid, dissected into twelve panels, providing a step-by-step pictorial guide to basic infantry exercises 'as practised by His Majesty's Army'. The whole consists of two separate evolutions: 'Manual Exercise' in eight steps, which invol...
Description:
Title and imprint statement from plate.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Military education, Military training, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The new manual and platoon exercises, as practised by His Majesty's Army [graphic]

2140.
The new manual and platoon exercises, as practised by His Majesty's Army [graphic]

Published / Created:
published 2 Jan 1795.
Call Number:
795.01.02.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A military-drill aid, dissected into twelve panels, providing a step-by-step pictorial guide to basic infantry exercises 'as practised by His Majesty's Army'. The whole consists of two separate evolutions: 'Manual Exercise' in eight steps, which invol...
Description:
Title and imprint statement from plate.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Military education, Military training, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The new manual and platoon exercises, as practised by His Majesty's Army [graphic]

2142.
The northern lord

Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse - "A noble lord of high renown".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary church yard
Subject (Topic):
Man-woman relationships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The northern lord

2143.
The officers address to the ladies : To their brightnesses the ladies of Great-Britain; the humble

Published / Created:
[1710]
Call Number:
File 523 Sa121 710
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Signatures: A².
Publisher:
Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The officers address to the ladies : To their brightnesses the ladies of Great-Britain; the humble address of Her Majesties officers

2145.
The only true list, of those celebrated sporting ladies, or petticoat amblers, who afford the bucks

Published / Created:
[ca. 1780]
Call Number:
Quarto 646 780 On58
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Prostitution, Brothels, and Sex
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The only true list, of those celebrated sporting ladies, or petticoat amblers, who afford the bucks and bloods an amorous felicity every evening during the races

2146.
The pedigree, education, and marriage of Robin Hood, with Clorinda, queen of Titbury feast

Published / Created:
[1750?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
printed for Robert Dicey
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Love, Education, Marriage, Bows (Archery)., Arrows, Archery, and Forests
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The pedigree, education, and marriage of Robin Hood, with Clorinda, queen of Titbury feast. Supposed to be related by the fidler, who play'd at their wedding

2147.
The politick lovers, or The Windsor miser outwitted

Published / Created:
[1799?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Windsor miser outwitted
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
Printed by M. Bowley, No. 96 Aldersgate Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Fathers and daughters, Parent and child, Courtship, Lifestyle, Deception, Man-woman relationships, Clergy, Love, and Demons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The politick lovers, or The Windsor miser outwitted

2148.
The politick lovers, or, The Windsor miser outwitted

Published / Created:
[between 1757 and 1784?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Windsor miser outwitted
Description:
Verse in three parts begins: "Of all the merry folicks".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Deception, and Man-woman relationships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The politick lovers, or, The Windsor miser outwitted

2149.
The politick wife, or, The devil outwitted by a woman

Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Devil outwitted by a woman
Description:
Verse - "Of all the plagues upon the earth,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Poverty, Devil in literature, Husband and wife, Women, Devil, and Temptation
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The politick wife, or, The devil outwitted by a woman

2151.
The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

Published / Created:
[March 1722?]
Call Number:
722.03.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen re...
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

2152.
The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

Published / Created:
[March 1722?]
Call Number:
Kinnaird 75K(d) Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of office, can be discerned behind the screen re...
Alternative Title:
Election carried by bribery and the devil
Description:
Title from caption in ribbon above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Scotland., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1722, Membership, Quarantine, Law and legislation, Inheritance and succession, Naturalization, Political corruption, Elections, Bribery, Children, Clergy, Devil, Mirrors, Screens, and Political elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The prevailing candidate, or, The election carried by Bribery and the Devil [graphic].

2153.
The princely lovers garland

Published / Created:
[between 1783 and 1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Verse -- "Once I read a noble volume,".
Publisher:
printed by Dicey's or Marshall
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Disguise, Courtship, Lions, Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Animal attacks, and Kings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The princely lovers garland

2154.
The prodigal daughter: or, the disobedient lady reclaimed

Published / Created:
[1775?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
The prodigal daughter; or disobedient lady
Disobedient lady reclaimed
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Repentance, Temptation, Devil in literature, Fathers and daughters, Mothers and daughters, Religious thought, Faith, Family, Religious life, and Ballads, English
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The prodigal daughter: or, the disobedient lady reclaimed

2155.
The protest

Published / Created:
[1741]
Call Number:
741.04.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched at top of plate above image.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, April the 7th 1741, and sold by J. Tinney, at the Golden Lion, in Fleet-Street, and at the print and pamphlet-shops
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The protest

2157.
The quacks [graphic].

Published / Created:
[17 March 1783]
Call Number:
783.03.17.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two renowned quacks demonstrate the superiority of each other's experiments and inventions. On the left, Graham, a quack, fashionable doctor and visionary, stands on the glass insulators used in his experiments with electricity and placed on top of a ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 17th 1783 by W. Humphrey No 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794. and Katerfelto, Gustavus, fl. 1782-1783.
Subject (Topic):
Electricity, Experiments, Gog and Magog, Quacks, Devil, Medicines, Gambling, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The quacks [graphic].

2158.
The quarterings belonging to The Right Honble. George Walpole, Earl of Orford, &c [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
Folio 142 764s Copy 3 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Vol. 1. Plate in: Baronagium genealogicum.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Coat of arms of The Right Honourable George Walpole, with motto "Fari que sentiat."
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Wm. Segar
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Nobility
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The quarterings belonging to The Right Honble. George Walpole, Earl of Orford, &c [graphic].

2159.
The rakish husband's garland

Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Verse -- "You gallant beaus of pleasure,". -
Publisher:
Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Husband and wife, Money, Prostitution, Wealth, Swine, Dogs, Chickens, Roosters, and Birds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rakish husband's garland

2160.
The rakish husband's garland

Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Sympson's warehouse, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet Market
Subject (Topic):
Husband and wife, Man-woman relationships, Money, Prostitution, Adultery, Wealth, and Deception
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rakish husband's garland

2161.
The remonstrance of Harris, pimp-general to the people of England : setting forth his many schemes

Published / Created:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Call Number:
646 759 R28
Image Count:
52
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Interleaved throughout.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Fleming, opposite Norfolk-Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The remonstrance of Harris, pimp-general to the people of England : setting forth his many schemes in town and country, for the service of the public, and the ungrateful treatment he has met with

2162.
The siege of Cales

Published / Created:
[not before 1715]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
A slip-song - "O brave England’s forces!".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Spain
Subject (Name):
Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688
Subject (Topic):
Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1747, Campaigns, Vigo Bay, Battle of, Spain, 1702, Naval warfare, Warships, and Sailing ships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The siege of Cales

2163.
The slighted father, or, The unnatural son justly reclaimed

Published / Created:
[between 1783 and 1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Unnatural son justly reclaimed
Description:
Verse -- "A wealthy man of late, we hear,".
Publisher:
Sold [by J. Evans] at No. 42, Long Lane
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Abused men, and Crutches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The slighted father, or, The unnatural son justly reclaimed

2164.
The sporting lady [graphic].

Published / Created:
1 Octr. 1776.
Call Number:
776.10.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A young woman in foreground, wearing boots and a plumed hat over her large wig, holds a gun over her shoulder and carries two dead partridges. A footman stands behind her, pointing a finger and laughing at her and dodges the barrel. A pointer walks in...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Women hunters, Fowling, Hunting, Game bird hunting, Hunting dogs, Firearms, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sporting lady [graphic].

2165.
The tavern kitchen fray, or, A dialogue between Nell and her mistress

Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Dialogue between Nell and her mistress
Description:
Verse begins: "In a tavern kitchen, the cook's territories,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the Printing-Office, in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Taverns (Inns), Household employees, Women, Social conditions, and Man-woman relationships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The tavern kitchen fray, or, A dialogue between Nell and her mistress

2166.
The tempele [sic] wedding, or, Love at first sight

Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Temple wedding
Tempele wedding
Love at first sight
Description:
Verse begins: "In London fair city a young man and a maid,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Courtship, Marriage, Household employees, Merchants, Husband and wife, and Man-woman relationships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The tempele [sic] wedding, or, Love at first sight

2167.
The treatise of fishing with an angle

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 171
Image Count:
74
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle, attributed to Dame Juliana Berners
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Fishing, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The treatise of fishing with an angle

2168.
The unhappy lady of Hackney

Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Verse begins: "You youthful charming lady's fair,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Rape, Incest, Pregnancy, Death, Siblings, Seduction, Coffins, Clergy, Preachers, and Funeral rites & ceremonies
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The unhappy lady of Hackney

2170.
The wandering young gentlewoman, or, Cat-skin

Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Wandering young, gentlewoman's garland
Cat-skin
Description:
Verse in five parts begins: "You fathers and mothers and children also,".
Publisher:
(Printed and sold at No. 41 Long-Lane, West-Smithfield, London,)
Subject (Topic):
Fathers and daughters, Parent and child, Household employees, and Education
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The wandering young gentlewoman, or, Cat-skin

2171.
The wanton virgins frightened, with the spy's downfal from the tree-top to the pond-bottom, or, The

Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Wanton virgins frighted
Old man strangely surprized and bugbear'd by the black bandileers and buff-coats
Description:
Verse - "You that delight in a jocular song,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Land [sic], London
Subject (Topic):
Single women, Swimming, Nudes, Women, Lakes & ponds, Voyeurism, and Trees
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The wanton virgins frightened, with the spy's downfal from the tree-top to the pond-bottom, or, The old man strangely surprized and bugbear'd by the black bandileers and buff-coats

2172.
The wanton wife of Bath

Published / Created:
[between 1783 and 1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Verse - "In Bath a wanton wife did dwell,".
Publisher:
J. Evans?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Topic):
Repentance, Women, Moral and ethical aspects, Heaven, and Gates
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The wanton wife of Bath

2173.
The weaver's garland, or, A new school for Christian patience

Published / Created:
[1800?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
New school for Christian patience
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Lane, West Smithfield, London
Subject (Topic):
Christian poetry, English, Poverty, Christianity, Ballads, English, Prayer, Poor persons, Fireplaces, and Children
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The weaver's garland, or, A new school for Christian patience

2174.
The weeping Christian, or, The righteous man's godly sorrow for the capital sins of his life

Published / Created:
[1790?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Righteous man's godly sorrow for the capital sins of his life
Description:
Date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Sin and Christian life
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The weeping Christian, or, The righteous man's godly sorrow for the capital sins of his life

2175.
The whimsical effect of reading the news paper crossways

Published / Created:
[1800?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Whimsical effect of reading the newspaper crossways
Description:
Date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the little a, No. 41 Leadenhall-Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Wit and humor and Reading
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The whimsical effect of reading the news paper crossways

2177.
The wyse boke of fylosophy and astronomy

Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 39
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of astrological information and a treatise on the signs of the zodiac, including lists of activities appropriate for each sign, and descriptions of the characteristics of those born under the inf...
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Astrology, and English prose literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The wyse boke of fylosophy and astronomy

2178.
This indenture, made the [blank] day of [blank] in the [blank] year of the reign of our Sovereign

Published / Created:
[1769?]
Call Number:
File 64 St15 769
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
This indenture, made the day of in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord ...
Description:
A printed form for the use by Church-Wardens and overseers of the poor.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices and Poor laws
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This indenture, made the [blank] day of [blank] in the [blank] year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord [blank].

2179.
This is to give notice to the nobility and gentry, that the famous Mr. Zucker is just return'd from

Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
File 66 76- T448
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Name):
Zucker, Mr.
Subject (Topic):
Magicians, Magic tricks, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This is to give notice to the nobility and gentry, that the famous Mr. Zucker is just return'd from abroad ... These amazing feats consist in a delightful amusement of skill of the eye, hands, and table, never seen in these kingdoms before, and are as follows

2180.
Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1777] and [printed ca. 1812]
Call Number:
777.00.00.10+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who i...
Alternative Title:
Fashion before ease
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Dogs, Monkeys, Beds, Bedrooms, and Tug of war
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

2181.
Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 November 1777]
Call Number:
777.11.04.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her hi...
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion
Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Wife abuse, Couples, Shoemakers, Workshops, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Furniture, and Interiors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

2182.
Tit for tat; or the merry wives of Wapping

Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Merry wives of Wapping
Description:
Caption title above first two columns.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the printing office in Stonecutter-street, Fleet Market
Subject (Name):
Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Adultery, Cuckolds, Ballads, English, Husband and wife, and Women
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tit for tat; or the merry wives of Wapping

2183.
To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Know ye, that we whose names are hereunto set

Published / Created:
[1780]
Call Number:
File 66 780 T627+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
A certificate recording the appointment 31 May 1781 of Henry Hastings "gentleman to be collector for ... the district of Colchester and Maldon ... for administering the oaths ... taken by paper-makers ... for proving that paper brought to be stamped a...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
Paper and Taxation
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Know ye, that we whose names are hereunto set, and seals affixed, being the major part of the Chief Commissioners and Governors for the management of the receipt of excise, and other duties put under our management and receipt, in pursuance of the powers and authorities to us given, have constitued, deputed and appointed [blank] ...

2184.
To the honorable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The coffee men dwelling within the

Published / Created:
1700?]
Call Number:
NZ +Z700Lq
Image Count:
2
Description:
BEIN NZ +Z700Lq: Manuscript note at head of title: 1700.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Tariff on coffee, Tariff on chocolate, Tariff on tea, and Coffee
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > To the honorable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The coffee men dwelling within the bills of mortality humbly present this their answer to a printed paper lately published : entituled Propositions for changing the excise now laid upon coffee, chocolet, and tea into an imposition upon those commodities at their importation

2186.
Torneo di Bacco per la festa popolare della Porchetta nella fiera dell'anno 1699 : dedicata a

Published / Created:
[1699]
Call Number:
Italian Festivals 18
Image Count:
9
Description:
Description of Bologna's annual Porchetta festival ("Festa della porchetta"), held in 1699. Full-size folded sheet tipped in, with engraving depicting the event, and caption: "1699 Bononiae".
Publisher:
Nella Impressoria camerale
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Bologna, and Bologna (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Festivals, Anniversaries, etc, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Torneo di Bacco per la festa popolare della Porchetta nella fiera dell'anno 1699 : dedicata a gl'illustrissimi signori confaloniere, et eccelsi signori anziani del quarto bimestre

2187.
Tractatus de spera d[e] Ioha[nn]is de sac[ro] busco. Theorica planetaru[m].

Published / Created:
1467.
Call Number:
Manuscript 22 Vault
Image Count:
84
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in two different hands, containing Joannes de Sacro Bosco's De sphaera mundi and Additiones (1r-22v) and Gherardo da Cremona's Theorica planetarum (23r-38v). First hand is unidentified; second hand, Jacobus de Milisapris, has copi...
Alternative Title:
Tractatus de spera de Iohannis de sacro busco. Theorica planetarum
Tractatus de sphaera / written by Jacobus de Milisapris de Porturraris at Padua ; finished "at 2 P.M. on 9 September 1467"
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy and Science, Medieval
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Tractatus de spera d[e] Ioha[nn]is de sac[ro] busco. Theorica planetaru[m].

2188.
Trade tokens and bookplates, 1705-1799 (bulk 1757-1758).

Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
184
Abstract:
A collection of English engraved advertisements, trade cards, invitations to society functions, and bookplates probably compiled around 1758 by F. [ or T.?] Legge of St. James's Market and mounted in an album, with five later items laid-in. In some ca...
Description:
Title from spine.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Retail trade and Commerce
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Trade tokens and bookplates, 1705-1799 (bulk 1757-1758).

2189.
Tragedie called Oedipus, [circa 1596-1603].

Call Number:
Eliz 294
Image Count:
168
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and a...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
Found in:
Elizabethan Club > Tragedie called Oedipus, [circa 1596-1603].

2190.
Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Cath...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]

2191.
Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
Hogarth 794.00.00.38 Box 120
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Cath...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]

2192.
Travel diary, 1764-1765

Call Number:
Osborn c523
Image Count:
95
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript of a travel diary which opens with the writer already in Rome on December 11, 1765, documents his sojourn in Italy, and concludes with a journey to Vienna, Berlin, and finally Potsdam one year later. The unidentified author describes the ar...
Description:
Bookplate: Ver Hayden de Lancey of the Middle Temple and Grey's Inn.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Italy, and Naples (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Military art and science, Travelers' writings, English, Travel diaries, Description and travel, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Travel diary, 1764-1765

2194.
Treatise on falconry, etc

Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1400]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 127
Image Count:
82
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Moamin, Treatise on Falconry, parts 1-3. 2) Treatise of Dancus rex. 3) Treatise of Guillelmus falconarius. Artt. 4-5: Anonymous treatises on horses. 6) Moamin, part 4, on dogs
Alternative Title:
Moamin
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Animal culture, Dogs, Falconry, Horses, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on falconry, etc

2195.
Treatises on magic, astrology, alchemy and Sufism : manuscript

Published / Created:
1761-1815.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 600
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Collection of treatises on magic, astrology, alchemy and Sufism: 1. On the magical qualities of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, their numerical values and their categorization into fire, air, water and earth letters, in Ottoman Turkish (folios1a-2...
Description:
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Astrology, Magic, Magic squares, Numerology, Sufism, and Talismans
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatises on magic, astrology, alchemy and Sufism : manuscript

2196.
Treatises on rhetoric, etc

Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 319
Image Count:
21
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Treatises on Rhetoric and Epistulae including texts by Francesco Filelfo, Apollonius Dyscolus (?), and Trypho
Description:
In Greek and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Rhetoric
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatises on rhetoric, etc

2197.
Trionfo di Bacco : fatto rappresentare dalla munificenza degl'illustriss. & eccelsi signori

Published / Created:
[1691]
Call Number:
Italian Festivals 12
Image Count:
9
Description:
Description of Bologna's annual Porchetta festival ("Festa della porchetta"), held in 1691, with festival theme 'the triumph of Bacchus'. Full-size folded sheet tipped in, with engraving depicting the event, signed: "L. Matthiolus f."
Publisher:
Per Giuseppe Longhi
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Bologna, and Bologna (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Festivals, Social life and customs, and Anniversaries, etc
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Trionfo di Bacco : fatto rappresentare dalla munificenza degl'illustriss. & eccelsi signori confaloniere di giustitia, et anziani consoli, sù la publica piazza di Bologna il gorno [sic] della solita festa popolare, 26 agosto, dell'anno presente

2198.
True love requited!, or, The bailiffs [sic] daughter of Islington

Published / Created:
[1750?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
True love requited, or, The bailiffs daughter of Islington
Bailiffs daughter of Islington
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Love, Man-woman relationships, Apprentices, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > True love requited!, or, The bailiffs [sic] daughter of Islington

2199.
Truth and moderation

Published / Created:
published April the 21 1741.
Call Number:
741.04.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Description:
Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with a hand-colored etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20 x 31.8 cm.).
Publisher:
Sold by John King in the Poultry, John Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, and at the print and pamphlet shops
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Truth and moderation

2200.
Two MS.

Published / Created:
1564.
Call Number:
Persian MSS suppl. 98
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, of two texts, given the titles Meezan (=mizan) and Moonshayb (=Musha'ib).
Description:
In Persian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian and Persian language and literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Two MS.

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