Tag Archives: Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)

The history and antiquities of the county of Essex

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Extra-illustrated and expanded to 5 volumes, each volume with an added printed title page dated 1908 and bound in early 20th-century red crushed levant full morocco gilt

  • Author: Morant, Philip, 1700-1770.
  • Title: The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c. / the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time, by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.
  • Published: London : Printed for T. Osborne …, J. Whiston …, S. Baker …, L. Davis and C. Reymers … and B. White …, 1768.

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Folio 64 Es75 768

Acquired September 2023

Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow

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watercolor of tall ships on the water

  • Author: Ludlow, Edmund, 1617?-1692.
  • Title: Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow : with a collection of original papers, and the case of King Charles the First.
  • Published: London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, and T. Cadell, in the Strand; and T. Evans, in King Street, Covent Garden, MDCCLXXI [1771]

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Quarto 63 771 L945

Acquired April 2023

The origin of language, and Idea of a perfect government

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  • Title: The origin of language, and Idea of a perfect government. Two poetic epistles, to Thamyris.
  • Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1785?]

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496 B85 785

Acquired May 2023

The environs of London

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  • Author: Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834.
  • Title: The environs of London : being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital : interspersed with biographical anecdotes. By the Rev. Daniel Lysons …
  • Edition: The 2d ed.
  • Published: London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811.

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Quarto 646 811L

Acquired January 2021

A true copy of the paper, delivered the night before her execution

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  • Author: Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733, author.
  • Title: A true copy of the paper, delivered the night before her execution / by Sarah Malcom, to the Rev. Mr. Piddington … March 6th, 1732-3.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J. Wilford, behind the Chapter-House, near St. Paul’s, MDCCXXXII [1732]

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55 M243 733

Acquired September 2020

The Hampstead congress, or, The happy pair

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  • Title: The Hampstead congress, or, The happy pair.
  • Published: London : Printed: and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, A. Dodd at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, and G. Woodfal near Charing-Cross, 1745.

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763 745 H231

Acquired June 2020

Memoirs of Theodore Lane

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A bound album with “Biographical sketch of the life of Mr. Theodore Lane” (pages [33]-59 from Pierce Egan’s 1831 publication: The show folks! (London : Printed for M. Arnold, 1831)), extra-illustrated with portraits of actors, actors in performances, playwrights, and art patrons, followed by cropped impressions, mounted, of the twenty-seven hand-colored plates that accompanied with Pierce Egan’s 1825 The life of an actor and on the final four leaves the nine small, black and white vignettes, also of theatrical scenes also from Egan’s Life of an actor. Lane was an English painter and engraver, who excelled at comic illustration. Also bound in at the front is an autograph letter from Egan dated 15 June 1832 to Mr. Elliott.

 

  • Author: Egan, Pierce, 1772-1849.
  • Title: Memoirs of Theodore Lane : printed text and manuscript / by Pierce Egan.
  • Production: England, circa 1825?

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Quarto 56 Eg13 832m

Acquired June 2020

Account of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress

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  • Author: Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress.
  • Title: Account of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress : with the nature and views of the institution ; also the plan and regulations, a list of subscribers, and an appendix, containing some of the most interesting cases.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the Society by W. Marchant, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, 1814.

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63 814 So678

Acquired September 2020

 

George Cruikshank : the artist, the humorist, and the man

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Extra-illustrated with 116 additional prints and autograph material: 82 etchings, caricatures, engraved plates, illustrated title pages, and broadsides by George Cruikshank, of which 24 are hand-colored, mounted and captioned in pencil having been trimmed to the image with loss of imprints

 

  • Author: Bates, William, -1884, author.
  • Title: George Cruikshank : the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert : a critico-bibliographical essay / by William Bates … ; with numerous illustrations by G. Cruickshank including several from original drawings in the possession of the author.
  • Edition: Second edition, revised, and augmented by a copiously annotated bibliographical appendix, and additional plates on India paper.
  • Publication: London : Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Square ; Birmingham : Houghton and Hammond, Scotland Passage, 1879.

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75 C889 S879

Acquired March 2020

The castle of Otranto : a Gothic story

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Extra-illustrated with the seven plates color-printed à la poupée for the Edward Jeffery edition of 1796

 

  • Author: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author.
  • Title: The castle of Otranto : a Gothic story / translated by William Marshal, gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
  • Edition: The sixth edition.
  • Publication: Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London, MDCCXCI [1791]

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24 17 791 Copy 16

Acquired July 2020