LSF WB 41357: Bound with v. 31-34 of Telekop, to which it is a supplement. Ch. 11 and first 124 p. of Ch. 12 only. and "Zhurnal mod i novosteĭ, izdavaemyĭ pri Teleskopi︠e︡."
Publisher:
V tipografii Nikolai︠a︡ Stepanova
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Social life and customs, and Clothing and dress
A scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, single sheet verse, newspaper clippings, with some manuscript materials laid in, somewhat organized topically, with material covering over a 95-year period, from the 1740s to 1838, but mostly dating from the last quarter of the 18th century. Topics included are: Gallantry, matrimony, conjurers and fortune tellers, clubs and societies, places of entertainment, spectacles such as exotic animals, curiosities of nature, freaks, etc. ; sporting events; advertisements for apparel; medical remedies and cosmetics; plays, ballets, and performances; obituaries and accounts of strange deaths; schools for gentlemen; balloon flights; puppets, mechanical inventions; comic poetry, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, ballads; jokes; accounts of ghosts and spiritual magic; auctions; religion; want ads; cooking; army recruiting; real estate; advertisements for books; strange accounts of bizarre crimes; traps; fire-fighting; accounts of the Thames; tobacco ads; shoes; public notices; election posters; fugitives from justice; wills and last testaments; lottery ads; notices relating to the Bonapartes; and other ads and reports including a print of a mummy
Description:
In English, with some entries in French., Title assigned by cataloger., Signed on inside front cover: "Beauchamp 1837.", and Imperfect impression of "A view of the menagerie in the King's Private Road," with bottom half of plate missing; laid in; not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and France
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning, Beauty, Personal, Clothing and dress, Entertainment events, Freak shows, Ghosts, Lotteries, Medical instruments and apparatus, Menageries, Sports, Violent crimes, Social life and customs, and Foreign public opinion, British
Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
Description:
In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):
Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
Description:
In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):
Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
Verse - "I pray attend unto this jest,". - In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments; imprint below the last two columns., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 37. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Defloration, Prostitution, Man-woman relationships, Young women, Conduct of life, Clothing and dress, Social aspects, and Social life and customs
Verse - "At Mitcham town did dwell"., In four columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments; the imprint is below the last two columns., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 43. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Unrequited love, Man-woman relationships, Clothing and dress, social aspects, Courtship, Lifestyle, and Wealth
Coates, Thomas, approximately 1802-1883, collector
Published / Created:
[1834-1836]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 834C
Image Count:
111
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album compiled by Thomas Coates, solicitor and sometime secretary to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, containing 340 proofs of wood engravings mounted on 68 leaves, with section titles and descriptions: Illustrations of the Hindoos / drawn on the blocks by Wm. Westall, A.R.A. 1835 (ca. [32] p.); British Canada 1835 ([8] p.); British costume ([3] p.); Old English sports ([8] p.); a group of 10 pages (some blank) with Roman ruins and other historic sites in Spain and Portugal; Illustrations of the Modern Egyptians / drawn on the blocks by the Author, Edwd. Wm. Lane Esq. 1836 (24 p.). Many of the ilustrations are captioned in blank ink by the same hand; others prints with pencil notations
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Bound in original black half morocco over marbled boards, spine decorate in gilt and upper cover with morocco label lettered "Scrap-book.", With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Coates. Below bookplate, slip of paper with the name and address of Mrs. Algernon Warren., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Canada, Egypt, India, Portugal, and Spain
Title from item., Date derived from clothing styles., Publisher supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Department of Education
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Medicine, Preventive, Health literacy, School children, Health and hygiene, Health education, Clothing and dress, Care, Children, and Dressing & grooming equipment
Title from item., Date derived from clothing styles., Publisher supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Department of Education
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Medicine, Preventive, Communicable diseases, Prevention, Health literacy, School children, Health and hygiene, Health education, Ringworm, Scabies, Clothing and dress, Care, Children, Bathing, and Dressing & grooming equipment
