American museum or, Repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, &c prose and poetical 1787-89.
Description:
Editor: Mathew Carey. and v. 1-12; Jan. 1787-Dec. 1792.
Publisher:
Printed by Mathew Carey [etc.]
Subject (Name):
Adams, John, 1735-1826, Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, Griffitts, Samuel Powel, 1759-1826, McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817, Penn, William, 1644-1718, Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795, Warley, Felix B., 1749-1814, and Washington, George, 1732-1799
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Anecdotes, Conduct of life--18th century, Dueling, Home remedies, Indians of North America--Government relations--Periodicals, Slave ships--Pictorial works, and Slave trade --United States
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Nos. 1-33 have imprint: London. Printed for W. Locke., No more published., Title page includes table of contents and list of engravings., Verso of title page includes notes to correspondents., Printed in two columns; issue numbering is continuous., Volume number added to direction line of each issue., Miscellany including anecdotes, romances, biographical sketches, poetry and songs. Also includes 43 essays entitled: Adventurer., With the armorial bookplate of Robert Dudley Winthrop., and Bound in green morocco, with gilt edges.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, English periodicals, Erotica, Biography, English, Music, and Poetry, English
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the diary of a dissenting divine living in Ireland who records, with close interest, the progress of the Dutch War and other domestic and foreign activities, including a famine in Ireland, the activities of Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Conde, persecutions against nonconformists in England, and notes about the American colonies. On November 16, 1675, he writes, """"I first heard of a War begun in N. England. Our first report is that the French joine with the Indians...A famine feared in N. England & Virginia by reason of 2 unseasonable yeares...The merchants forbid any more goods to bee sent from Londont o N.E. All the country, prepareing for war."""" Taylor mentions the work of John Eliot among the Indians and quotes a letter from Increase Mather. The manuscript also includes accounts of crimes, such as the description of an apprentice stabbed with a rapier hidden in a cane, notes on """"prodigies,"""" signs, and portents, and the description of """"an unusuall distemper which was generally called a cold, November 1675.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Dissenters, Dissenters, Religious, Dutch War, 1672-1678, and King Philip’s War, 1675-1676
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the diary of a dissenting divine living in Ireland who records, with close interest, the progress of the Dutch War and other domestic and foreign activities, including a famine in Ireland, the activities of Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Conde, persecutions against nonconformists in England, and notes about the American colonies. On November 16, 1675, he writes, """"I first heard of a War begun in N. England. Our first report is that the French joine with the Indians...A famine feared in N. England & Virginia by reason of 2 unseasonable yeares...The merchants forbid any more goods to bee sent from Londont o N.E. All the country, prepareing for war."""" Taylor mentions the work of John Eliot among the Indians and quotes a letter from Increase Mather. The manuscript also includes accounts of crimes, such as the description of an apprentice stabbed with a rapier hidden in a cane, notes on """"prodigies,"""" signs, and portents, and the description of """"an unusuall distemper which was generally called a cold, November 1675.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Dissenters, Dissenters, Religious, Dutch War, 1672-1678, and King Philip’s War, 1675-1676
Manuscript, in Walpole's and others' hands, of a collection of several dozen scraps of notes, verse fragments, sketches, and drawings, collected from Walpole's papers. The notes are primarily epigrammatic or anecdotal, on such topics as printing books; British monarchs; Waldegrave's time as ambassador at Paris; Lady Mary Coke's affectations; and Sir W. Draper's gambling. The collection also includes several riddles and verses. Some of the notes have been transcribed, on the same page, by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and The manuscript also contains 29 drawings, including pencil sketches of Strawberry Hill some done by Walpole and others possibly by John Chute; a pen-and-wash drawing of a scene from The Castle of Otranto accompanied by a note of thanks from Mrs Susanna (Highmore) Duncombe; a pen drawing of the actor William Kemp copied from the frontispiece of a book; numerous busts; a detailed pastoral landscape scene in pencil, possibly by Agnes Berry; pencil sketches of a pig, cow, and dog; pen sketches by Sir John Fenn; and a woodcut title page to a book of John Skelton's works, dated 1523
Alternative Title:
Walpoliana mss and drawings
Description:
In English., Laid in: scrap of paper with faded ink writing, possibly Walpole's., Marbled endpapers., Binding: full calf; gilt decoration. In gilt on spine: Walpoliana mss and drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a diary written by the housekeeper of Thomas Secker, later the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he was Bishop of Oxford. The diary mentions the activities of the nobility, including the movements of Secker’s family and the return of the Pacific expedition led by George Anson; reports of casualties from the War of Austrian Succession; local events, such as a description of "the street all in confusion upon a report of a young woman being killed in a house on Airs Street: they cant find her dead nor alive: the mob which is glad of any oportunity to commit violance have done much damage to the house;" and her visits, dinners, and conversations with friends and other servants. The author also records her private thoughts, writing in 1744, "Have lost my dear family. My Lord & Ladies set out this morn for Cuddesden...had several & various employments & sitting up which they knew not about. All over now: am always grieveing when they go." Elsewhere, she writes, "Went this morning to the wedding. Was Bride maid. No other company beside the father who says its our turn next. This fills my head full of whimseys but shall soon get the better of it."
Description:
Accompanied by a description [8 l.] of the manuscript and its contents by "M. Talbot.", Blanks not scanned., Bookplate of Sir George Talbot and Marianne Talbot (1778-1808)., and Many pages have been written around the address "To Miss Talbot" or "To the L. Bishop of Oxford."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Foreign relations --1727-1760, Great Britain --Politics and government --1727-1760, and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 and Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Domestics--Diaries--Early works to 1800., Women authors, and Women --Conduct of life
