Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the church, with an
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name):
Askew, Anne, 1521-1546
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs --England --History, Executions and executioners--England--Early works to 1800, Persecution--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, and Torture--England--Early works to 1800
Peele, J. W. (John Websdale), active 1822-1846, publisher
Published / Created:
[1824]
Call Number:
File 74 824 P374
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Broadside celebrating Fairlop Fair, held annually held on the first Friday in July. The broadside gives a short account of the origins of the fair, reproduces two songs sung by a Mr. Hemingway and a Mr. Lidard during the fair, and shows the festivities in an impressive woodcut which was printed from a woodblock fashioned from the celebrated Fairlop Oak. The Fairlop Oak was an impressive oak in the Hainault Forest near a lake at Fairlop Waters. In 1725 Daniel Day (d. 1767), a ship-builder, took some friends for a picnic there, repeating this for a number of summers until it gradually developed into a larger event, attended by ship, boat, and barge builders and their associated trades, though it was always held without a charter. By the early 19th century it was a well attended fair, known for its sometimes riotous behaviour. Day always made a point of arriving at the fair in a boat on wheels and this tradition continued. These impressive modes of transport, festooned with lights and sails, full of people in garish costumes making music and breaking into song were one of the features of the fair, and a well-known spectacle in the East End of London when they set off. By 1813 the Fairlop Oak had lost a great deal of its crown. The broadside here records its girth as being 36 feet. The tree was blown down in a gale in 1820, and its timber was used for a variety of celebratory furniture but also for the block from which the present woodcut was carved
Description:
Caption title., Date of publication from manuscript note on verso., Text includes ballads and songs in three columns, with a large woodcut of the Fairlop Oak and the surrounding fair above., With a ms. note on verso in ink and in an unidentified hand and dated: These bills circulated during the fairs. A mention is made of a charter in one of these songs, but such is not the case. Friday July 2, 1824., and For further information, consult library staff.
The frontispiece is dated 1795 and is included in the Contents list., Frontispiece of William Hogarth, 2 leaves (letterpress title page and "A catalogue of the original works of William Hogarth contained in this volume"), and 110 engravings on 85 leaves., and Bound in full contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, rebacked. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, and No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Social life and customs, and Manners and customs
Caption title., Printed in two columns with a woodcut at the head of each column, and playing cards surrounding text., Text begins: The serjeant commanded his party to the church, and when the parson had ended his prayer, he took his text; and all of them that had a Bible pulled it out to find the text, but this soldier had neither Bible, almanack, nor common prayer book, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a pack of cards, and spread them before him as he sat, and while the parson was preaching he first kept looking at one card and then at another., Undated; James Catnach was active at this address from 1813 until his retirement in 1838; see Hindley, C. The history of the Catnach Press ..., 1886. Queen Victoria is mentioned in the text: "And also of Queen Victoria, to pray for her.", so the printing date must be after her accession in 1837., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Middleton, Richard, Private in the 66th Regiment of Foot.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Prayer, Christianity, Soldiers, Religious life, Almanacs, Playing cards, Religious services, Soliders, and British
Back, John, Blare, Joseph Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Deacon, John, fl. 1682-1701 Lortic, M. (Marcelin), 1852-1928 Millet, E
Published / Created:
1693
Call Number:
2004 354
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Account of the life and actions of Mr. John Bunyan and Pilgrim's progress.
Description:
"An account of the life and actions of Mr. John Bunyan" has separate pagination and title page., A spurious work, not by Bunyan., Imperfect: leaf L1 and advertisements at end wanting. Armorial bookplate: Cardiff Castle. Binder's stamp: Lortic Fils., Signature errors: H4 signed K4., Signatures: A⁶ B-I¹² K⁴., and With two final advertisement leaves.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Millet, for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, without Newgate; J. Back, at the Black Boy, on London-bridge; and J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge,
Subject (Name):
Bunyan, John,--1628-1688 and Cardiff Castle (Cardiff, Wales) Bookplate
