Short discourse of hawking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes and Short discovrse of havvking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes
Description:
Armorial bookplate: Ex libris David Wagstaff. Binder’s stamp: J. Kulesho., P. [6]-[7], consists of a poem concerning falconry, that begins "A perfect plot how for to hawke ...", P. 73-76 omitted from pagination., Signatures: A-I⁸., and The author is unknown although it is thought he was from Kent as there are a number of references to the county in the work, including the following from p. 55: "... diuers Kentish ge[n]tlemen, some of my kindred and others of my acquaintance ..."
Publisher:
for Thomas Man
Subject (Name):
Wagstaff, David, 1882-1951
Subject (Topic):
Falconry -- Early works to 1800 and Hunting -- Early works to 1800
Bears the bookplate of Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Duke of Bedford., Includes An Appendix to the Review; The Contents of the Review, Feb. 1704-Jan. 1705; The Contents of the Supplement to the Advice from the Scandal Club, Sept. 1704-Jan. 1705., and Title vignette.
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a complete prognostication for someone born in the Haywards Heath region of Sussex, including his personality; the length of his life; his financial situation; his relationship to his father; the number of his marriages; satisfaction with his servants; the behavior of his "pretended friends"; and the kind of travel he will do. For example, the manuscript declares, "The Native should go many voyages or long journies...the chief end of his travelling should be to gain learning and honor; But the Moon and Mare being in opposition to the Ninth Hous, shewe that it should be very unproffitable to him." The volume also includes 7 horoscope drawings.
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron; signature of Michael Lort (1725-90)., Binding: contemporary panelled calf, gilt., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Marbled endpapers., On title page: An Astrological Judgment Upon the Nativity of a Gentleman born in the Latitude of 51 degr. And from the Meridian of London to the Westward 13 min: Astronomically and Astrologically Performed by Phillip Williams, Student in Astrology., and Pages 46-50 blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Sussex (England)
Subject (Name):
Williams, Phillip
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Divination, Fortune-telling, Horoscopes, and Planets
A reply to John Yarker on the subject of Cerneauism., Bound with: Pike, Albert. A fragrant nosegay.[Washington, 188-?], Caption title., and Signed: Albert Pike.
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