"Heywood only signed the Elegy or epitaph on Welby ... but he obviously wrote all the rest except the commendatory verses" (Oxford Bibliographical Society, Proceedings & papers, I, 128)., Commendatory verses by J.B., Shackerly Marmion, Thomas Brewer, J.T., and John Taylor (the water poet); "An epitaph, or rather, A funerall elegie upon ... Henry Welby" (F2 verso-F3), by Thomas Heywood., Imperfect: some head-lines slightly bled., and Signatures: [a]2 (incl. front.) A-F4 (F4 blank).
Publisher:
Printed by N. Okes, and to be sold by Richard Clotterbuck at his shop in Little Brittaine, at the signe of the Golden Ball,
Subject (Name):
Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641 and Welby, Henry
Before frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of James Hackman, half-length, in an oval, in profile to the right, dressed in a dark frockcoat over his waistcoat, his hair curled and powdered and with a black patch on his forehead."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reverend James Hackman
Description:
Title etched below image., Frontispiece to: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the late Miss Martha Reay. London : Printed for G. Kearsly, near Serjeants-Inn, Fleet-street, 1779., Leaf before frontispiece, in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., and Originally issued as the frontispiece, this plate is separated from the title page here by another plate (a portrait of Martha Reay) that was inserted into this copy.
Translated from Claude Boutet's Traité de mignature. Cf. Bibl. Nat. and With: The British legacy. London : T. Chandler, 1754
Publisher:
Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, facing St. Magnus-Church, London-Bridge, and M. Cooper, at the Globe, Pater-Noster-Row,
Subject (Name):
Hilles, Frederick Whiley,--1900---Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Colors--Early works to 1800, Drawing--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800, Engraving--Early works to 1800, and Miniature painting--Early works to 1800
Title from caption below vignette., Text following title: page 52., Frontispiece from: Wonderful characters by Henry Wilson, v. 1., "Jones & Barriff script"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Illustrative material: The excursion of George Harvest -- Literature: Wilson, Henry, Wonderful Characters.
Bookplate: H.M. Includes engraved front. from unidentified later edition. A8 (blank leaf) wanting. Variants: Letter "t" of catchword "to" on leaf O1 wanting; Letter "I" of catchword "I" on leaf P4 wanting. Binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son. and Signatures: A-2D⁸ 2E⁴ (A8 blank).
Publisher:
Printed for, and sold by W. Chetwood, at Cato's-Head, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, and T. Edling, at the Prince's-Arms, over-against Exerter-Change in the Strand,
A copy of the Hogarth's Frontispiece and its explanation for Samuel Butler's poem Hudibras with the title engraved above the image and the text below in a single sentence below. Plate one is an emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the left, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia
Alternative Title:
Hudibras. Frontispiece
Description:
Title from text above image., After Hogarth., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Five lines of explanatory text below image: The bass relief on the pedestal represents the general design of Mr. Butler in his incomparable poem Hudibrass ..., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 504., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet annotated in brown ink in a contemporary hand: "Twelve plates" written above image and "35" is written in upper right corner. Two sewing holes along left edge.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
A punishment meted out to runaway slaves in Dutch Surinam as recorded by Stedman
Alternative Title:
Horrid torture of impalment alive as a punishment on runaway slaves and Horrid torture of impalement alive as a punishment on runaway slaves
Description:
Title etched below image., Formerly bound in as frontispiece to: Seizure of the ship Industry by a conspiracy and the consequent sufferings of Capt. James Fox and his companions. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [1810?]., From a series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Possibly detached from: Lewis Walpole Library 86 810 Sc462.
Publisher:
Pub. by Thos. Tegg
Subject (Name):
Fox, James, Captain.
Subject (Topic):
Eskimos, Death, Families, Fugitive slaves, Punishment & torture, Enslaved people, Soldiers, and British
"London published July 4th 1801 by S. Fisher."--Frontispiece., Signatures: [B]² C-E⁶., Frontispiece title: The Ship's crew in consternation, on being shot, [...] Indians from the trunk of a large hollow tree., and Old stab-stitch holes in the blank inner margin. Later peach paper wrappers, title in manuscript to the upper wrapper. Preserved in a brown cloth folding case and crushed morocco-backed slipcase; slipcase lettered in gilt. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by S. Fisher, no. 10, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell and Also sold by T. Hurst, no. 32, Paternoster-row
Subject (Topic):
Adventure stories, Indians of the West Indies, and Chapbooks, English
