Recent Antiquarian Acquisitions

The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Posted on November 21, 2023 by km55

printed text

Broadsheet: 3 large woodcut blocks illustrations and verses

Title: The vanity of human life. : Life and death contrasted, or, An essay on man. Messenger of mortality, or, Death and the lady.
Publication: [London] : Printed & sold by J. Catnach, No. 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials, London, [1820s?]

820.00.00.115+

Acquired November 2022

Posted on June 20, 2019 by km55

title page for A series of prints taken from the New Testament

Intended to accompany Sarah Trimmer’s ‘A description of a set of prints taken from the New Testament’.

Author: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741-1810.
Title: A series of prints taken from the New Testament, designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.
Published: London : Printed and sold by John Marshall, No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane, and No. 17, Queen Street, Cheapside, [1790?]

722 790T

Acquired October 2018