A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
A description of the island of Saint Helena, with twelve numbered points of interest keyed to the letterpress text below that appears on either side of the caption title. Below the title are two columns of text with detailed description of the topography, history, defenses, towns, roads, weather, vegetation, animals (native and those breed by the English), fishing, naval traffic, population (white and black), its governance and relationship to the East India Company and its use by the British navy
Description:
Caption title., Engraved view "Saint Helena from the roads" at head, with imprint "Published Augt. 1815 by J. and E. Wallis ...", First line: This island is situated in 15 deg. 55 min. south latitude, and 5 deg. 49 min. west longitude, from Greenwich., and Imperfect; sheet cut into two, with engraved view mounted above letterpress text. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for J. and E. Wallis, 42, Skinner-Street, Snow-Hill; and J. Wallis, Jun., Marine Library, Sidmouth
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 133: Title label on case shaved with place of publication wanting. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from slip case., and Date inferred from reference to the re-establishment of a "legitimate monarchy" in France.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing Cards, Manners and customs, Clothing and dress, and Description and travel
Caption title., Printed on silk, within decorative borders. Engraved portrait of "Caroline Queen of England" beneath title., Broadside addressed from the Brass Founders and Braziers in support of Queen Caroline in October 1820, a month before the withdrawal of the Pains and Penalties Bill which aimed to annul Caroline’s marriage to George IV. Beneath the address is a response from Queen Caroline together with an ‘Order of the Procession’ in support of the queen., First lines: May it please Your Most Excellent Majesty. We, the operative Workers of Brass ... do most humbly and dutifully approach your Most Gracious Majesty, to offer our congratulations on your Majesty’s return ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Cowie, 58 Shoe Lane, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Brass Founders and Braziers.
"Portrait of Nicholas Haddock, three-quarter-length, slightly turned to the left, one hand holding a baton of command and the other resting on the hilt of his sword, with a curling periwig, in a frockcoat with a sword-belt about his waist, the hilt of his sword formed as a bird's head, a vignette of a naval engagement below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Ttile engraved above image., "Britons the valiant Haddock here behold! Who Spain will Scourge and fill with Indian Gold, The Pockets of each honest Tar that Fights, For England's Laws, her Liberties and Rights."--Engraved below image., Mounted on brown paper with a small printed souvenir from the 1740 Frost Fair mounted at the bottom of the image., and For further information, consult library staff.
To William Davison, chemist, druggist, & apothecary
Description:
Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Engraved invoice for the pharmacist, stationer, and printer William Davison of Alnwick., and Invoice completed in manuscript to "Major Frankland, West Glanton"; numbered "231" in upper right and dated "1821 October 17" in lower left. For further information, consult library staff.
Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools (Society)
Published / Created:
[1827]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An engraved admission ticket with the St. Paul's Cathedral in a rondel in the center flanked on the left with an figure of a boy in a niche with the words "Naked & ye clothed us" below and on the right a girl, also in a niche, with the words "Ignorance & ye instructed us" below. Above the rondel is engraved in frame: Date et dabitur vobis
Description:
Title from text surrounding central image of St. Paul's Cathedral., "Designed, drawn & presented to the Society of Patrons by James Elmes, architect in College Hill, London. Steward in 1807.", Engraved text above images: 1827 West door., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First line of text: Admit one person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday the 14th of June 1827 when a sermon will be preached by the Right Revd. Father in God Charles James, Lord Bishop of Chester, before His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, President ... [list of vice presidents and stewards]., With the engraved signatures of Chas. Stable and Wm. Child above imprint statement., Ticket numbered "3512" in ink within circle between the engraved signatures above imprint., Mounted to 27.1 x 21 cm., and Mounted before page 127 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Society of Patrons and Norris & Son, sc. Moorfields
Invitation to a dinner with officers of the Charity Schools of Christ Church, scheduled for 5 June 1828 at Highbury Tavern
Alternative Title:
Christ Church Spitalfields, Charity Schools and Sir, the favor of your company is requested to dine with the Treasurer & Trustees of the Charity Schools of Christ Church
Description:
Title from item., Text continues with the engraved name of "Edwd. Meyrick, Esqr. Treasurer," beneath which the names of twelve "Stewards" are listed in two columns., Entirely engraved; illustrated with a view of the facade of the school at head of sheet, and a smaller depiction at bottom of a breastfeeding woman with a boy and a girl at her sides, all standing on a pedestal upon which "No. [blank]" is engraved., "Dinner at 1/2 past 3 for 4 o'clock precisely"--Lower left corner., "Tickets 12 s."--Lower right corner., Blank space following the engraved text "No." at bottom has been filled in with the manuscript number "85.", Mounted to 27.1 x 21.1 cm., and Mounted opposite page 386 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
A collection of 41 printed items that chronical the 1820 plot to murder the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and his cabinet, so named for location where the thirteen conspirators meet near Edgware Road in London. The police learned of the plot through an informer, George Edwards, leading to a police trap in which one policeman, Richard Smithers, was killed, but the plotters were apprehended. Five other conspirators were transported to Australia. The collection includes portraits of the plotters, views of the Cato Street area and the interior of the loft where they were found, broadsides describing the events (some with images), and descriptions of the execution of five of the conspirators. The collection includes a series of portrait prints by Robert Cooper after drawings by Abraham Wivell that were published as illustrations to Thomas Kelly's "The Cato Street Conspiracy" (1820). A drawing signed "Peter Jackson, July 31, 1960" is a 20th-century view of the exterior of the London building where the conspirators were discovered
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Many of the titles of the prints and broadsides are individually cataloged. Search by call number: LWL MSS 52., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):
Adams, Robert, active 1820., Hiden, Thomas, active 1820., Brunt, J. T. 1782?-1820. (John Thomas),, Cooper, Charles, active 1820., Davidson, William, 1786-1820., Edwards, George, 1788-1842., Ings, James, -1820., Monument, John, active 1820., Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820., and Tidd, Richard, 1775?-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Revolutionaries, History, Treason, and Criminals
All engraved including title page on verso of first leaf., Date from publication based on known date of Thomas Hope's commission for the work by Henry Moses. Cf. Designs of modern costume, engraved for Thomas Hope of Deepdene. London : Costume Society, 1973., Plates signed: H. Moses del. et sc., and Bound in contemporary straight-grain red morocco, bordered in blind on covers, spine gilt in compartments; with a bold autograph on the recto of front free marbled end-paper: Edward Bell.For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Henry Setchel & Son 23 King Strt. Covt. Garedn
