Tag Archives: Book illustrations

A practical guide for the light infantry officer

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  • Author: Cooper, Thomas Hammont.
  • Title: A practical guide for the light infantry officer : comprising valuable extracts from all the most popular works on the subject ; with further original information … / by Capt. T.H. Cooper.
  • Publication: London : Printed for T. Egerton, at the Military Library, near Whitehall, 1806.

Catalog Record

63 806 T778

Acquired December 2023

Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem

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  • Title: Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem / by the late Professor Porson ; to which are added The modern fine gentleman, Modern fine Lady, Curtain lectures, and the squire and the parson.
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall, 1819.
  • Manufacture: [London] : M. Brown, printer, 86, St. Martin’s Lane

Catalog Record

53 P81 819

Acquired December 2023

Le voyage et les avantures des trois princes de Sarendip

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A collection of oriental tales, first published by Michele Tramezzino in 1557, and ascribed to Christoforo Armeno.
Translated from the Italian by the Chevalier de Mailly.

  • Author: Cristoforo Armeno, active 16th century, associated name.
  • Uniform Title: [Peregrinaggio di tre giovani, figliuoli del Re di Serendippo]
  • Title: Le voyage et les avantures des trois princes de Sarendip. : Traduit du Persan.
  • Publication: A Amsterdam : Chez Steenhouwer & Uytwerf, Libraries sur le Rockin, vis à vis la porte de la Bourse, MDCCXXI [1721]

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494 C933 721

Acquired September 2023

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales

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“Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick as Princess of Wales, after Beechey, almost half-length in an oval, head in three-quarter profile to left, wearing a high-necked collar and chains at her neck, her hair tied up in a sash, plumes and a crown below, with a glory surrounding; published for ‘La Belle Assemblée’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841, printmaker.
  • Title: Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales [graphic] / Sr. W. Beechey pinx. ; Scriven sculp.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed as the act directs for John Bell, March 28, 1806, Southampton Street, Strand, exclusively for his publication of La Belle Assemblée, [28 March 1806]

Catalog Record

File 53 C47 806Sc

Acquired July 2023

Punishment of the Tcha

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“A Chinese man undergoing punishment, with his head and right hand locked into a sort of stocks formed of planks of wood onto which are nailed placards, with a guard and onlookers.”–British Museum online catalogue.

 

  • Printmaker: Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker.
  • Title: Punishment of the Tcha [graphic] / W. Alexander del. ; Ino. Hall sculp.
  • Publication: London : Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol, [12 April 1796]

Catalog Record

796.04.12.03+

Acquired June 2022

The Wykeham or Winchester Tower. North west view

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View of Winchester Tower, Windsor Castle, from the north west; the Norman Gate in the background on the left; trees below the tower in the foreground.

  • Printmaker: Kernot, J. H., printmaker.
  • Title: The Wykeham or Winchester Tower. North west view [graphic] : part of the repairs, alterations and improvements of Windsor Castle, in the reigns of King George IV, King William IV, and Queen Victoria / Mich. Gandy, del. ; Sir Jeffry Wyatville, architect ; engraved by J.H. Kernot.
  • Edition: [Proof].
  • Publication: [London] : [John Weale], [1841]

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Topos B513 no. 1+

Acquired August 2022

London, or, An abridgment of the celebrated Mr. Pennant’s description

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  • Author: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.
  • Title: London, or, An abridgment of the celebrated Mr. Pennant’s description of the British capital, and its environs. : Containing, An accurate, succinct, and interesting Account Of the most memorable Revolutions in Politics, Historical Events, Treasons, Fires, Public Executions, Remarkable Murders, and singular Robberies. Critical Observations on the public Buildings; a Review of their History; and a candid Examination of their Perfections and Defects. To which are prefixed, Notes, Additions, and Observations; and four capital plates. By Mr. John Wallis.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the editor and sold by W. Bentley, MDCCXC [1790]

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646 790 P37a

Acquired May 2022

The life and mysterious transactions of Richard Morris, Esq

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  • Author: Old acquaintance.
  • Title: The life and mysterious transactions of Richard Morris, Esq. : better known by the name of Dick Spot, the conjuror, particularly in Derbyshire and Shropshire. / Written by an old acquaintance …
  • Publication: London : Printed by T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, for Ann Lemoine, White-Rose-Court, Coleman-Street, and sold by T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, [1798?]
  • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, Lombard-Street

Catalog Record

53 M877 798

Acquired March 2022

The C … ll volunteer corps

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  • Author: Inhabitant of Coggeshall.
  • Title: The C … ll volunteer corps : a farce, in two acts / by an inhabitant of Great Coggeshall.
  • Edition: The fourth edition.
  • Publication: Colchester : Printed and sold by I. Marsden : Sold also by all the Booksellers in the United Kingdom, [1804?]
  • Manufacture: [Colchester] : Marsden, printer, Colchester.

Catalog Record

768 In56 804

Acquired May 2022