An elderly man plays a harp on a hillside surrounded by couples and children. In the distance are mountains and a tower
Alternative Title:
Harpist in the mountains, the Welsh bard
Description:
Title from the first line of the four-line poem printed below the image., Title continues: "... That not a mountain rears his head unsung. And many an amorous, many a humourous lay, which many a bard had changed many a day.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Frontispiece to: Jones, E. Bardic Museum. Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards, v. 2. London : For the author, 1802.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament Feb. 20, 1802 by Ed. Jones, in Lord Steward's Court-Yard, St. James's Place
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Harps, Mountains, and Musicians
"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,3.524., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Drawn frontispiece to A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... at Strawberry-Hill ... . A structure of Gothic design is depicted, with the abridged title of the book at its center. Alcoves in the structure hold statues on either side of title; the statue on the right is a knight in armor. The Walpole family crest is drawn in gold below the title and the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat" appears within a banner on the ground in front of the structure
Description:
Title written in ink and gold paint at center of design., Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount below image., and Mounted on page 9 (formerly H) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Lee Lewes stands on stage at Covent Garden, with busts arranged on a table behind him, he holds one up, turning to the crowd; the audience in the pit in the foreground, with four tiers of boxes behind; after Woodward."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Frontispiece to: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784., Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803, and Covent Garden Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Actors, British, Interiors, Audiences, and Public speaking
Signatures: A-H⁴. and William Beckford's copy, with his penciled note on lining paper, and with the book-plate of the Beckford collection, Hamilton Palace Library. Bookplate of Alexander Hamilton Douglas, 10th Duke of Hamilton (Hamilton Palace Library, Beckford Collection).
Publisher:
Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke junior, and are to be sold at the signe of the Blue Bible in Greene Arbour,
Subject (Geographic):
Algeria--History--1516-1830 and Algiers (Algeria)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, C.A.--Bookplate, Baldwin, V.--Bookplate, Beckford, William, 1760-1844--Autograph, Beckford, William, 1760-1844--Ms. notes, Hamilton Palace Libraries Bookplate, and Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, Duke of, 1767-1852--Bookplate
"Interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, with Benjamin Wilson standing at left holding a torch at the end of a long conducting device, two assistants at different points in the apparatus at right."--British Museum online catalogue and "The scene probably depicts Wilson's demonstration for the King in 1777 to demonstrate his theories about lightning conductors (see G. L'E. Turner 'A Portrait of James Short, F.R.S., Attributable to Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S' Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 22, No. 1/2 (Sep., 1967), pp. 105-112, p.106)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Frontispiece to: Wilson, B. An account of experiments made at the Pantheon on the nature and use of conductors. London : Printed for J. Nourse ..., 1778., and Bound in before page 339 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
J. Nourse
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, London., London, and England.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788,
Subject (Topic):
Electricity, electricity, Experiments, Scientific equipment, and Electrical apparatus
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. Vaughan, Robert, active 17th century
Published / Created:
1651
Call Number:
Meg45 651f
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Abel redevivus., Dead yet speaking., and Exact narration of the life and death of ... Lancelot Andrewes.
Description:
Described in Oxford bibliographical society, Proceedings and papers, vol. 4, p. 149-150. There is no frontispiece-portrait of Fuller; the engraved title reads: "Abel Redevivus or The dead yet speaking. Mors vltima linea rerum est ... Sould by Iohn Stafford in Brides churchyard, 1651"; the capital S on leaf A1 recto is about 1 1/8 inch square; page 221 is so numbered. Portrait of Bishop Andrewes (to follow p. 440) wanting; leaf C2 (blank) wanting. Manuscript note on fly-leaf in Mrs. Piozzi's hand: "This old Book was kindly presented by Sophia Lee to H:L: Piozzi as a New Year's Gift 1:st Jan: 1800."
Publisher:
Printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford dwelling in Brides churchyard, neer Fleetstreet,
Subject (Name):
Lee, Sophia--Presentation inscription to H.L. Piozzi., Piozzi, Hester Lynch,--1741-1821--Ms. notes., and Piozzi, Hester Lynch,--1741-1821--Presentation inscription from S. Lee.
Subject (Topic):
Christian biography., Christian biography--Early works to 1800., Reformation--Biography., and Reformation--Biography--Early works to 1800.
"A catalogue of the names of the general authors, both ancient and modern, besides later voyagers, consulted to the carrying on of this first volume": 7th prelim. leaf., Imperfect: 2 maps (Tunis and Lovando St. Paulo) wanting., In this Beinecke copy, the 1st prelimin. leaf bears text "English atlas, tome the first" and the "Catalog" is on the 8th prelim. leaf., and Title in red and black; intials; head-pieces.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Johnson for the author,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Description and travel, Islands of the Atlantic, and Islands of the Indian Ocean
Subject (Name):
Boynton, Griffith--Autograph and ms notes and Hodgdon, Ernest F.--Stamp
