- Author: Reeves, Eliza.
- Title: Poems on various subjects / by Eliza Reeves.
- Published: London : Printed for the author: and sold by C. Dilley, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXX [1780]
53 R332 780
Acquired July 2020
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Tag Archives: Armorial bookplates
The Norfolk & Norwich remembrancer
- Title: The Norfolk & Norwich remembrancer, and vade mecum; : containing, 1st. A brief description of the city and county. 2d. A chronological retrospect of the most remarkable events which have occurred in Norfolk & Norwich during the eighteenth century; … 3d. An index villaris; Including an accurate account of the population … extracted from the official returns taken in 1801. … 4th. Direct and cross roads from Norwich, Yarmouth, Lynn, and Cromer. 5th. An alphabetical list of noblemen and gentlemen’s seats and villas in the county …
- Publication: [Norwich]: Printed and sold by Stevenson and Matchett, Market-place, Norwich; and to be had of the distributors of the Norfolk Chronicle, and of all booksellers, [1801]
644 801 N83
Acquired February 2020
The naturalist’s cabinet
- Author: Smith, Thomas, 1775 or 1776-1830, author.
- Title: The naturalist’s cabinet : containing interesting sketches of natural history; illustrative of the natures, dispositions, manners, and habits of all the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes, amphibia, reptiles, &c. in the known world / by Rev. Thomas Smith.
- Publication: [London] : Published by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster Row, [1806-1807]
- Manufacture: [London] : Albion Press printed.
63 806 Sm642
Acquired January 2020
The British farmer’s cyclopaedia
- Author: Potts, Thomas, 1778-1842.
- Title: The British farmer’s cyclopaedia, or, Complete agricultural dictionary … / Embellished with forty-two engravings.
- Publication: London : Printed by W. Flint for Scatcherd and Letterman, Ave-maria-Lane, and M. Jones, No. 1 Paternoster-Row, 1807.
69 807 P871
Acquired June 2020
Historia de la vita e de la morte de l’illustriss
- Author: Florio, Michelangelo, author.
- Title: Historia de la vita e de la morte de l’illustriss. signora Giovanna Graia, gia regina eletta e publicata d’Inghilterra e de le cose accadute in quel Regno dopo la morte del Re Edoardo V / L’argumento del tutto si dichiara ne l’auuertimento seguente, e nel’proemio de l’authore M. Michelangelo Florio …
- Publication: [Middelburg?] : Stampato appresso Richardo Pittore, ne l’anno di Christo 1607.
494 F638 607
Acquired March 2020
Travels through Denmark and part of Sweden
- Author: Macdonald, James, traveller, author.
- Title: Travels through Denmark and part of Sweden, during the winter and spring of the present year 1809 : containing authentic particulars of the domestic condition of those countries, the opinions of the inhabitants, and the state of agriculture / by James MacDonald. In two volumes.
- Publication: London : Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, 1809.
81 809M
Acquired March 2020
Illustrations for The Universal songster
A collection of 20 proof states of the 27 prints after George Cruickshank used as illustrations for The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth. Most are signed with Marshall’s initials ‘JRM’, with two signed ‘J.R. Marshall’ and most identify the artist as ‘G.C.’ (i.e. George Cruikshank) or G. Cruikshank’. One print based on William Hogarth’s “O the roast beef of Old England, &c.” includes the attribution “From Hogarth by G.C.”
- Author: Marshall, J. R., active 1820-1840, printmaker.
- Title: [Illustrations for The Universal songster]
- Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1825]
75 C889 825
Acquired November 2019
The new Newgate calendar
With engraved plates showing prisons, executions, portraits, trial at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, crimes on land and at sea. Directions to binder at end of volume 3.
Contents continues: … mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money-droppers, imposters, and thieves of every description. Containing also a number of interesting cases never before published; with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases; explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers, to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world.
- Author: Knapp, Andrew.
- Title: The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time. Chronologically arranged. Comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates … / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, attornies at law.
- Publication: London : Printed and published by J. Robins and Co., Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, [1820?]
521 6
Acquired June 2019
Sayer and Bennett’s enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints
- Author: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
- Title: Sayer and Bennett’s enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints : in sets, or single; also useful and correct maps and charts; likewise books of architecture, views of antiquity, drawing and copy books, &c. &c. …
- Publication: London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775.
125 R639 775
Acquired June 2019
The old English ‘squire
Plates: The old squire — Fetching the midwife — Dressing the young squire — Young squire gets ferrul’d for neglecting his studies — Breaking cover, or Hunting in Hampshire — Tries a new shooting pony, which won’t do — Crammed at college by his tutor for a degree — Gets cheated by his miller who grinds oats for him — Young squire goes to London and gets his pockets eased — Takes lessons in dancing — Sits for his portrait — Goes to the opera — Buys an historical picture. St. Anthony preaching to the fishes — Goes to a picture sale — Rides home on a borrowed horse — Mistakes mushrooms for game and spoils their shape — Meets with a small accident — His gun misses fire, because he had forgot to load it — Goes with some friends to shoot grouse on the moors — Not the safest way to carry loaded guns in a wood — Spurs himself in the wrong place — Sees a water kelpy — The village schoolmaster, fond of little bits — A cheerful dance.
- Author: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, author.
- Title: The old English ‘squire : “a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free” : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.
- Publication: London : Printed for Thomas M’Lean, 26, Haymarket, by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho, 1821.
53 C4 821
Acquired May 2019