Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Date of publication from ESTC., First line of text: "The Right. Hon. the Speaker -"., In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by a rule., Refers to Mr. Wilkes's 'History of England', vol. 1 of which was published in 1768, and to "Sermons for young women, in 2 vol. 12mo.", which may be a reference to James Fordyce's collection, which went into a large number of editions in 1766 and 1767., A selection of statements on contemporary events, made ridiculous by their association with other events., Mounted on leaf 35. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Date of publication from internal evidence: a reference to the modern lady reading "Hoyle", presumably one of Edmond Hoyle’s books on whist or another game, the first of which was published in 1742., Text in two sections: "Lady in Q. Elizabeth's time" and "Modern fine lady". First line begins: "Five o'clock.--Get up an hour sooner than usual"., Possibly a fragment or detached from larger work., In two columns with title centered above both; columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 14. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Title from caption below image., "Price 6 d"--Upper left corner., Date of publication, March or April 1248, based on the event depicted., and Three lines of dialogue below title: First juvenile. "I say Tommy, what do you think of this here jolly row?" Second Do. "Why I think we ought to down with the Harrystockracy, and pay no Hincome tax." First Do. "Oh! and have all the pastry cooks shops throw'd open to the people free, gratis, for nothink!!!"
Publisher:
Published at the Punch Office
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Poor, Employment, Taxation, Economic conditions, Boys, and Crowds
An Ionic column surmounted by an acorn and oak leaves with the title in the label above. A ram's skin stretched against it bears a Latin inscription and from the limbs hang purses inscribed: "Places", "Secret Service", "Pensions", "Bribes", "Commendums", and "Privy Seals." Below the images is inscribed an English translation of the satirical attach on Sir Robert Walpole under the name Thomas Wolsey: "To the perpetual infamy of Thomas Wolsey, who having fraudulently possess'd himself of [the] administration and giveing a loose to his nefarious propensity to publick rapine at the expence of his harass'd country ..."
Description:
Title from text at top of image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Quote below title: Take away the wicked, from before the King, and his throne shall be establish'd in righteousness. Prov. 25, v. 5., Latin inscription in image: In perpetuam infamiae memoriam Thomae Wolsaei ..., and Mounted to 28 x 27 cm.
A man in ragged clothes stands facing right, hunched forward under the weight of a basket of 'Rents' and 'Taxes' strapped to his back. His legs are shackled, his mouth is closed by a padlock, and his hands are tied behind him. Image enclosed within a circle
Alternative Title:
Freeborn Englishman
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker is likely the publisher Thomas Spence's son William, who was born in the early 1780s and died in 1797. See Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for Thomas Spence., Probably a copy, with alterations, of a print published circa 1795 entitled "A freeborn Englishman, the admiration of the world, the envy of surrounding nations, &c. &c." See description for No. 8710 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Thomas Spence seems to have also issued copper tokens in 1796 with depictions of a similar shackled figure on one side. See for example British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: T.6498., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Publishd. by T. Spence, Turn Stile, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Poverty, Poor persons, Locks (Hardware), Shackles, and Taxes
A rotund doctor, holding a cane under his arm and wearing a wig, looks at his watch as he takes the pulse of very thin man in a dressing gown and night cap who jumps on one leg and wears a look of pain on his face. Above the doctor's head: "You are bespoke!!"
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from ms. notation below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, tracing the geneology of the rulers of Wales and Great Britain, from Cadwalader ap Cadwallon (called Cadwalader Fendigaid, d. 664/682), king of Gwynedd to King George II and Robert Lord Walpole, later the 2nd Earl of Orford to the year 1723. Includes references to nobility and rulers of Europe. Philipps includes brief biographies of some of the more notable descendants
Alternative Title:
Genealogical table of all the kings and princes of Wales from Cadwaladr last King of Britain to Llywelyn last Prince of Wales of the British blood
Description:
A roll (now flattened) made from two sheets laid end to end and mounted on paper adhered to cloth; original sheets rubbed and torn with loss of text at the top and illegible words interspersed throughout., With dedication: To the Right Honourable Robert Lord Walpole this draught is humbly dedicated by My lord, your lordship's most obedient humble servant and kinsman, John Philipps., In English., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Geographic):
Nobility, Great Britain, and Wales
Subject (Name):
Cadwaladr, Vendigaid, -664?, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, -1282., and Walpole family.
Genealogical table starting with Guerin or Warin de Waldegrave, a Norman through to John Waldegrave, third son born Nov. 27, 1756
Description:
Title from item., Plates numbered '233' and '234' respectively, in upper right corner of plates., Plate engraved for volume 1 of: Segar, William. Baronagium genealogicum. London, 1764., Plates numbered '232', 233' and '234' attached to one another. With manuscript annotations, newspaper clippings, and scraps with manuscript notes pasted on or tipped in, in multiple hands., and For further information, consult library staff.
