Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China. and Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. English
Description:
Added engraved t.p., Errors in paging: 185-204 omitted in numbering., and Imperfect: t.p. trimmed and mounted.
Publisher:
Printed by John Macock for the author,
Subject (Geographic):
China--Description and travel., China--History--Early works to 1800., and China--Politics and government--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Goyer, Pieter de., Keizer, Jacob de., Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis. English., Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie., Ogilby, John, 1600-1676., and Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama