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- Creator:
- Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802
- Published / Created:
- 1775 September
- Call Number:
- A89 P384
- Collection Title:
- The Pennsylvania magazine: or, American monthly museum
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Verso blank.
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
- Collection Created:
- Philadelphia, Printed and sold by R. Aitken [1775-1776]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A new map of North & South Carolina, & Georgia
- Creator:
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
- Published / Created:
- 1794-1812
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 527
- Image Count:
- 3
- Abstract:
- Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate of Thomas Hughes in volumes 1-7., Binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt. Spines gilt with red morocco gilt title labels., Formerly owned by Prince Albert. Ex libris Thomas Hughes. Formerly owned by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Formerly owned by Paula Peyraud. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2009., Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821), author and diarist, published one of the first biographies of Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786); her Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book, was not published until 1942., and Piozzi's annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays; variations in women's fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, Spectator (London, England : 1711), and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812.
- Published / Created:
- 1775 May
- Call Number:
- A89 P384
- Collection Title:
- The Pennsylvania magazine: or, American monthly museum
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- On linen mount. and Verso blank.
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
- Collection Created:
- Philadelphia, Printed and sold by R. Aitken [1775-1776]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Description of a new invented machine for deepning [sic] and cleansing docks
- Creator:
- Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 February 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.02.12.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hastings ho, rare hastings and What man buys he may sell
- Description:
- Title from banner within image., Caption below plate: "What man buys he may sell. Blackstone's Commentaries &c., &c", In upper left corner: Plate 2., Inscribed: To Mr. Erle D[...?] with Mr. E.J. Grosvenor's best Love L. Pomfret[?]., and With a watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. [the] 12, 1788 for S. Doughty & Co., No. 19 Holborn, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- India. and India
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Trials, litigation, etc, Clothing & dress, and Wheelbarrows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > H-st--ngs ho, rare H-st--ngs [graphic].
- Creator:
- Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 February 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.02.12.02+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hastings ho, rare hastings and What man buys he may sell
- Description:
- Title from banner within image., Caption below plate: "What man buys he may sell. Blackstone's Commentaries &c., &c", In upper left corner: Plate 2., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 25.7 cm., and Mounted to 37 x 29.2 cm; numbered in ms. upper right corner '134'.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. [the] 12, 1788 for S. Doughty & Co., No. 19 Holborn, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- India. and India
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Trials, litigation, etc, Clothing & dress, and Wheelbarrows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > H-st--ngs ho, rare H-st--ngs [graphic].
7.
- Published / Created:
- MDCCLXIV [1764]
- Call Number:
- 646 764 H24
- Image Count:
- 76
- Description:
- Signatures: [A]⁶(-A1) a⁶ B-L⁶ M⁴(-M4) [$3 signed (-B2,3)]., Supposed to have been composed by Jack Harris, waiter at the Shakespeare's-Head, and edited by S. Derrick. First ed. 1760. Cf. Lowndes (who says "Benjamin" Harris); H.W. Bleackley., and With H.W. Bleackley's ms. notes.
- Publisher:
- Printed for H. Ranger, near Temple-Bar
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- English wit and humor, Prostitution, Almanacs, English, and Sex
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, New Atalantis for the year 1764 : containing, an exact description of the persons, tempers, and accomplishments of the several ladies of pleasure who frequent Covent-Garden, and other parts of this metropolis
8.
- Published / Created:
- 1858.
- Call Number:
- AP50 K66B (LC)
- Container / Volume:
- 1/9 / 1774
- Image Count:
- 154
- Alternative Title:
- Satiricheskīĭ zhurnal N.I. Novikova
- Description:
- A reprint of the 1774 edition, including original t.p., Published originally in Sanktpeterburg and edited by N.I. Novikov., and "'Koshelek' izdavalsi︠a︡ v Spb., v malui︠u︡ osʹmushku, listami; vsi︠e︡kh listov - devi︠a︡tʹ."
- Publisher:
- Tip. S. Selivanovskago
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, Russian, Russian wit and humor, and Russian periodicals
- Found in:
- Sterling Memorial Library > Koshelek
- Creator:
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795
- Published / Created:
- 1787 June
- Call Number:
- Im B654 787L
- Image Count:
- 4
- Description:
- In the Gentleman’s magazine.
- Subject (Name):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mr. Boswells life of Dr. Johnson ... : the publick are respectfully informed, that Mr. Boswell’s life of Dr. Johnson is in great forwardness ...
- Creator:
- Hoole, John, 1727-1803
- Published / Created:
- 1755 and 1799
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 426
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Journal narrative relative to Dr. Johnson's last illness
- Description:
- Printed matter from Vol. 36, September 1799 issue of European Magazine
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Narrative of Dr. Johnson's last illness