- Author: Duclos, Charles Pinot-, 1704-1772, author.
- Title: Acajou et Zirphile, conte.
- Publication: A Minutie [that is, Paris] : [publisher not identified], MDCCXLIV [1744]
49 3091
Acquired April 2021
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To wit. We [blank], church-wardens and overseers of the poor
A settlement certificate signed, and with seals, by the church wardens, overseers of the poor, and witnesses, for a husband, wife, and their two children in the Parish pf Tamworth in the county of Warwick.
- Title: To wit. We [blank], church-wardens and overseers of the poor in the parish of [blank] in the [blank] of [blank] aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge [blank] to be [blank] inhabitant legally settled in the parish of [blank] aforesaid …
- Publication: [London] : Sold by J. Coles, stationer, in Fleet-Street, [ca. 1766]
File 66 766 T627+
Acquired May 2021
Standing regulations of the Light-Horse Volunteers of London
- Author: Great Britain. Army. Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminister.
- Title: Standing regulations of the Light-Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster : carefully extracted from the minutes of the general meetings, and resolutions of the committee, since the revival of the Corps in 1794, and up to the first of August, 1804. To be strictly observed by every L.H.V.
- Publication: London : Printed by I. Gold, Shoe Lane, 1804.
63 804 G786
Acquired March 2021
An invocation to Edward Quin, Esq
- Author: Jones, John Gale, 1769-1838, author.
- Title: An invocation to Edward Quin, Esq. : as delivered at a society called the Eccentrics : on Saturday, the 26th of Nov. 1803, at the request of the members : with corrections and additions, including notes critical and explanatory / by John Gale Jones.
- Publication: London : Printed for the author, and sold by R. Bagshaw, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden; J. Jordan, Fleet-Street; and by all other booksellers, [1804]
- Manufacture:[London] : Printed by E. Spragg, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden.
763 804 J76
Acquired April 2021
The art of correspondence
- Title: The art of correspondence, consisting of letters on various subjects, selected chiefly from the works of eminent authors. In French and English : To which are added, letters, notes, &c. on domestic concerns, and addairs of business.
- Publication: London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 18, Strand, 1817.
- Manufacture: [London] : Imprimé par Schulze et Dean, No. 13, rue de Poland, à Londres.
659 817 Ar784
Acquired April 2021
The Birmingham Register, or, Entertaining Museum
Includes essays, anecdotes, selections reprinted from other journals such as The Monitor and the continuation of The North Briton; with a ‘Historical memoir’ in each issue including domestic and foreign news, prices of stocks, bankrupts; with poetry selections.
Intended as a supplement to the Birmingham Register newspaper. Published in alternate weeks as a companion to the Coventry Museum.
- Title: The Birmingham Register, or, Entertaining Museum.
- Publication: Birmingham [England] : Printed by and for, J. Sketchley, sworn appraiser, auctioneer and salesman, in High-Stret; and sold by T. Luckman, printer, in Coventry; Mr. Pryce, Shrewsbury; Mr. Clare, Bewdley; Mr. Geast, Dudley; Mr. Smart, Walsall; Mrs. Moseley, Kidderminster; Mrs. Unett [sp?], Wolverhampton; … [and 25 others in various provincial towns]; and by all the booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, [1764]-
61 B619
Acquired January 2021
[Ticket for Dalby Theatre]
An image of a mad Medea [?], hair flowing and left breast bare, holding a dagger in her right hand and held above her head, posed read to strike. In her left hand she holds a chalice. There is a column to her left in the background. Used as a ticket for a production at Dalby Theatre, the private playhouse of Edward Hartopp (1758-1808) at his seat Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire.
- Title: [Ticket for Dalby Theatre] [graphic].
- Production: [Melton Mowbray?] : [publisher not identified], [1803]
File 767 P69b D213 803.1 7/21 Copy 3
Acquired January 2020
The frontispiece and its explanation
A copy of the Hogarth’s Frontispiece and its explanation for Samuel Butler’s poem Hudibras with the title engraved above the image and the text below in a single sentence below. Plate one is an emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the left, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler’s poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia.
- Title: The frontispiece and its explanation [graphic].
- Publication: [London] : Printed and sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [between 1760 and 1777?]
Folio 75 H67 768B
Acquired January 2021
Thomas Hewerdine, oil and colour-man
Includes a printed list of paints and oils, as well as other chandlery goods including preserved goods, grocery stores and other materials of use on board.
- Title: Thomas Hewerdine, oil and colour-man, at the sign of the Colour-Grinder, the corner of Barnaby-Street, in Tooley Street, Southwark, London; Sells all sorts of colours ready prepared (at the lowest prices) for house or ship painting; that any gentlemen builders, &c. may set their servants to work, at an easy expence, by the help of a printed direction, he gives with his colours.
- Publication: [Southwark, London] : [Thomas Hewerdine], [1765]
File 66 765 T454
Acquired January 2021
Theatre Royal. Drury Lane. Admit [blank] to the boxes
- Title: Theatre Royal. Drury Lane. Admit [blank] to the boxes, Saturday, [blank] 182[blank].
- Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1820s]
File 646 826 T374
Acquired August 2020