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Parlor amusements : a collection of acting charades, parlor dramas, shadow pantomimes, games

Published / Created:
September 22, 1886.
Call Number:
1978 +S3 1
Image Count:
16
Description:
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 16 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in three columns., and Advertising matter on p. 16.
Publisher:
F.M. Lupton, publisher, 3 Park Place, New York
Subject (Topic):
Indoor games, Charades, Shadow shows, Puzzles, and Rebuses
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Parlor amusements : a collection of acting charades, parlor dramas, shadow pantomimes, games, puzzles, etc., for social gatherings and public and private entertainments

2.
Winter evening recreations : a choice collection of acting charades, tableaux vivants, games

Published / Created:
August 9th, 1884.
Call Number:
1978 +S3 1
Image Count:
16
Description:
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 26 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., and Text in three columns.
Publisher:
F.M. Lupton, publisher, 3 Park Place, New York
Subject (Topic):
Indoor games, Charades, Tableaux, Puzzles, and Rebuses
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Winter evening recreations : a choice collection of acting charades, tableaux vivants, games, puzzles, etc., for social gatherings, private theatricals, and evenings at home

3.
[Commonplace book], [ca. 1737].

Call Number:
Osborn c152
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of about 25 primarily satirical or lighthearted poems, many on the subject of women and love. Poem titles include Damon to Philomel; Advice to a lady, by George, 1st baron Lyttleton; On Sr Isaac Newton; Upon the death of Mrs Page's dove; and A receipt to make an epigram by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield. Other poets include John Hervey, baron of Ickworth and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu., The last section of the manuscript contains a 19th-century collection of social letters by religious figures addressed to Mr. or Mrs. Young and Miss Anna Young, pasted or tipped into the volume., and The poems are followed by a copy of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Thomas Southern, dated 1735; and several poems, including one on the death of Lady Caroline Seymour, and several rebuses and poems on flowers.
Alternative Title:
A receipt to make an epigram; said to be wrote by Lord Chesterfield
Description:
Autograph inside front cover: Mary Dyott 10 Febry 1792., Binding: contemporary panelled calf; gilt decoration. The front cover is detached., Partial index at end of volume., Written on flyleaf: My brother Willm & Family came to my mother April the 26 1808 Retd from May the 26 1808 left July the 10th., and Written on flyleaf: This book was given me by Dear Mrs Ogle January the 15 1747.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--19th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Dyott, Mary--Autograph, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,--Baron,--1709-1773, and Montagu, Mary Wortley,--Lady,--1689-1762
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--18th century, Rebuses, Verse satire, English, Women authors, and Women--Conduct of life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1737].