Tag Archives: Early works

The Suffolk wonder

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illustration of a short, bald man with printed text below

A broadside on Christopher Bullock, a tiny but fat watch and clock-maker in Suffolk; with a woodcut showing a portrait of Bullock, holding a wig in his left hand, mopping his brow with the other; with letterpress title and text, including information on other people of Suffolk including another dwarf Miss B-t-h-c-r, and a table listing market days and distances from London of towns on the road to Yarmouth, and with one vertical segment of type ornaments. See British Museum online catalogue.

  • Title: The Suffolk wonder: or, The pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale.
  • Publication: [Ipswich?] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1755]

Catalog Record

755.00.00.27

Acquired August 2023

A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia

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This work became eventually an army text book

  • Author: Windham, William, 1717-1761.
  • Title: A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia of the county of Norfolk.
  • Published: London, Printed, for J. Shuckburgh, at the Sun, next Richard’s coffee-house, Fleetstreet, 1759.

Catalog Record

63 759 W72

Acquired May 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]

Catalog Record

Quarto 63 771 L945

Acquired April 2023

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]

Catalog Record

646 790 P37a

Acquired May 2022

The academy of play

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  • Author: Bellecour, abbé.
  • Uniform Title: [Academie universelle des jeux. English]
  • Title: The academy of play : containing, a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris … From the French of the Abbé Bellecour.
  • Publication: London : Printed for F. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yaed, Ludgate-Street, [1770?]

Catalog Record

63 770 B438

Acquired November 2021

Reasons humbly offer’d against a clause

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  • Title: Reasons humbly offer’d against a clause in the bill against clandestine running of un-customed and prohibited goods, and for the more effectual preventing of frauds relating to the customs, which relates to the package of coffee for exportation.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1719]

Catalog Record

File 752 R288 719

Acquired March 2021

 

The constable’s guide to his duty

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  • Title: The constable’s guide to his duty : containing instructions to constables, petty constables, headboroughs, tithingmen, &c. in the several particulars of their office.
  • Publication: Oswestry : Printed and sold by J. Salter, MDCCXC [1790]

Catalog Record

63 790 C756

Acquired April 2021

The artists assistant in drawing, perspective, etching…..

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  • Author: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, author.
  • Title: The artists assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins. : Containing the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts, methodically digested and adapted to the capacities of young beginners. Illustrated with suitable examples engraved on copper.
  • Edition: The third edition, improved.
  • Publication: London : Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printeseller, No. 53 Fleet-Street, and John Smith, No. 35, Cheapside, as the Acts directs, 4th January, 1772.

Catalog Record

72 772 B787

Acquired April 2021

The Royal kalendar

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Complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for 1800

  • Title: The Royal kalendar, or, Complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1800 : including a complete and correct list of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain …
  • Published: London : Printed for J. Debrett …, G.G. and J. Robinson, G. Wilkie, and H.D. Symonds …, C. Law, and L.B. Seeley … [and 9 others], and other proprietors …, [1800]

Catalog Record

145 Am512 1800

Acquired March 2021