Engraved trade card depicting Mercury and other allegorical figures, possibly advertising the work of James Bolton who traded in the City of London between 1779 and 1792
Description:
Title from engraved text in image. and For further information, consult library staff.
Autograph manuscript of a collection of pedigrees and genealogical charts, accompanied by many small illustrations of "arms in trick." Some of the pedigrees are taken from the Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire visitations of the early 1680s. An alphabetical index of the coats of arms represented preceeds the pedigrees
Description:
In English., Attributed to Robert Dale by Sir Thomas Phillipps in a pencil note on recto of front flyleaf. Several additional pages at the end of the Dale collection are attributed by Phillipps to Samuel Stebbing., Spine title: Stemmata. List of Crests., Bound with: An Alphabetical List of Crest's copied from a list in the handwriting of Mr. Ra: Thoresby, late of Leeds, Antiquarian, which Manuscript was bought at the sale of his Library in London on 7th May 1763. Manuscript on paper in copperplate script, corrections in a different hand in red ink, 36 p., undated. Phillipps MS 13396., and Binding: nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dale, Robert, -1722. and Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725.
Manuscript commonplace book in an unidentified hand containing copies of many English poems, including works by Pope, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Courtney Melmoth. Other works include the anonymous Roselin Castle and Verses on Ben Lomond
Description:
In English. and Binding: contemporary full green-stained parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, English literature, English poetry, and Romanticism
Autographed letter signed from Joseph Farington to John Boydell written from Houghton Hall the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford where he spent three years making drawings of the paintings for Boydell's Collection of prints after the most capital paintings in England (2 vols., 1782). He reports on the progress of his work in general and in particular his work with "the Paul Brills".
Description:
In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Boydell, John, 1720-1804., Houghton Hall (England), and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Burges, James Bland, Sir, 1752-1824, attributed name
Published / Created:
[1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse - "Once on a time, a little French Marquiss"., Sometimes attributed to Sir James Bland Burges., Dated from another edition, issued as part of: 'Poetry; original and selected', vol. 1 (1st issue), Glasgow, [1796]., In two columns with the title in three lines centered above both; the columns are separated by a rule in a vague leaf pattern. Last line of first column: "On the Marquis she must impression made;"., Mounted on leaf 51. 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.
Richard Batten linnen-draper and Richard Batten linen-draper
Description:
Title from text on item., Advertising card for Richard Batten's wholesale and retail drapery business., and For further information, consult library staff.
Autograph diary recording the experiences and thoughts of the Reverend Samuel Noyes during his service in the Low Countries with the Earl of Orkney's regiment of foot guard in 1705-1706. In addition to a lengthy account of the Battle of Ramillies (23 May 1706), the diary contains daily entries describing life on campaign; events in encampments and during marches; and Noyes' extensive correspondence with members of the Anglican hierarchy
Description:
Dr. Samuel Noyes (died 1740) was educated at King's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1688. He was Chaplain to the Earl of Orkney's regiment of foot guard from 1692 until 1709, after which he served as rector in multiple English parishes. He was appointed Canon of Winchester Cathedral in 1731., In English., Title devised by cataloger., Accompanied by a 19th-century typescript carbon transcript prepared by T. H. Noyes., and Binding: original wallet-style parchment with tongue-flap closure.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Belgium.
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, George, Earl of Orkney, 1666-1737., Noyes, Samuel, -1740., Great Britain. Army., and Great Britain. Army
Subject (Topic):
Chaplains, Military life, Military chaplains, Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714, Campaigns, and Early works to 1800
