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 cases the collector has recorded on the versos the circumstances in which he acquired a card. The trade cards include a wide range of London businesses: apothecaries and druggists; booksellers; bookbinders and related trades of leather gilder and case makers; brush makers; boot and shoes makers; cabinet and chair makers; cards and paper goods providers; chimney sweeps; clock and watch makers; coach maker; confectioners; sellers of combs and cutlery; coopers; dentists; distillers; drapers; dyers; engravers; fan makers; figure makers; furriers; glassmakers; goldsmiths; grocers; gun makers; hairdressers; hatters and hosiers; ironmongers; jewelers and brokers; mercers; milliners; makers of musical instruments; oil men; paper makers and paper hangers; pewterers; picture framers; plumbers; printsellers; saddlers; makers of scales; stationers; tea merchants; tin-workers; snuffman and tobacconists; tool makers; toy makers and sellers; trunk makers; turners; undertakers; upholsterers; sundries. In addition to intact copies of cards, the album includes details of decorative elements trimmed from other copies or other cards and advertisements as well as decorative and armorial bookplates
Description:
Title from spine. and Full leather calf binding with a Cambridge panel design, exterior and inner-most panels "sprinkle" style, gold tooled, gilt edges, and red leather spine label "Trade tokens and bookplates"; tri-color handsewn endbands in red, blue and yellow. Six raised bands with ornate gold tooled ornaments on the spine.
"Satira dezena del juuenalen ... Traduzida por dõ geronimo de villegas": p. [654-661] (leaves Q2v-Q6v)., Armorial bookplates: Henry Hucks Gibbs; Thomas Ewart Marston. Binder's stamp: Bound by Holloway. Scattered ms. annotations in early part of book., Pagination supplied by cataloger., Printed in gothic letter, title in red; large coat of arms on t.p. and at end; initials; colophon device (Haebler IIIc)., Signatures: (8(?)(2-7a-z8(symbol)8(symbol)8A-O8P-Q6., The Yale copy is without the title-page as given in Cornell univ. library cat. of Dante, v. 1, p. 67-68; bound at front instead, is the leaf of Villegas' arms with title at foot and with blank verso (8th leaf in the Cornell copy, with arms of Juana of Aragon on verso) The leaf is facsimile 766b in Vindel: "Esta pagina se halla en algunos ejemplares al principio en lugar de la Suma o indice, que entonces se halla al final"., and Translation of the Inferno only, including Landino's commentary.
Publisher:
Friedrich Biel,
Subject (Name):
Gibbs, Henry Hucks,--1819-1907--Bookplate., Juvenal. Satura 10. Spanish., Juvenal. Villegas., Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504., Marston, Thomas E.--Bookplate., Villegas, Jeronimo de, d. 1504., and Villegas, Pero Fernandez de, d. 1525.
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
Alternative Title:
[Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
Description:
In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.
Inlaid to 21 cm. Inserted as frontispiece is a water-color drawing of a woman with a monkey, presumably meant to represent a witch., Signature: A4., and Title-vignette (portrait of Mother Shipton).
"Complemental verses" by T. Carew: p. 87., First edition. "The lines beginning 'Light-winged smoke, learian bird' (p. 271) were published in the Dial, April, 1843, under the title of 'Smoke', but nothing else in the book appears ever to have been printed before"--F.H. Allen, A bibl. of H.D. Thoreau, 1908., Has ads dated April 1854. Bookplate of Walter R. Callender., Publishers advertisement, 8 p. at end., and Title vignette (Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond); the plan is of Walden Pond, 1846.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 150 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
