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Tippoo Saib’s two sons taking leave of their mother

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 Before a tent with a throne inside, Tippoo Sahib’s wife, mother of his two sons, kneels on a rug; she embraces her one son as the other son stands behind him. Tipu Sultan stands in the background with a woman servant(?)

  • Title: Tippoo Saib’s two sons taking leave of their mother [graphic] : previous to their being deliver’d up to Lord Cornwallis as hostages at the termination of the war in the East Indies in 1792.
  • Published:[London : Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 12 May 1794]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

794.05.12.59+

Acquired December 2013

Dresses of the representatives of the people

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Translation of: Costumes des représentans du peuple.

  • Author: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810.
  • Uniform Title: [Costumes des reprérsentans du peuple. English]
  • Title: Dresses of the representatives of the people, members of the two councils, and of the executive directory : also of the ministers, judges, messengers, ushers and other public officers, &c. &c. / from the original drawings given by the Minister of the Interior to Citizen Grasset S. Sauveur ; the whole is illustrated by an historical description, translated from the French.
  • Published: Paris : Printed for Deroy ; London : Printed for E. and S. Harding, printersellers …, 1796.

Catalog Record

82 796Gr

Acquired July 2013

These are to certifie that…

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 Form for releasing prisoners for one day “to transact his affairs.”

Annotated with the name of the prisoner, warden, and dated 23 April 1737.

  • Author: Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
  • Title: These are to certifie, that (pursuant to the late act of Parliament) the Court of Common Pleas has granted to [blank] …
  • Published: [London : s.n., 1737?]

Catalog Record

File 652 737 T413

Acquired July 2012

The French King’s scheme for an invasion

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An engraving showing the head of Louis XV in the image of the coast of France with the ports of Dunkirk and Boulogne shown. From his mouth come the words: “O! O! O! me d’ Pompedour.” The French navy is shown towing small forts across the Channel towards England. Flanking the French fleet are three British ships. Two on the left labelled Anson and one on the right labelled Hawk.

  • Title: The French King’s scheme for an invasion
  • Published: [London] : Sold in May’s Buildings, colour’d 1756

Catalog record & Digital Collection

756.02.00.01

Acquired December 2012

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, rent charge …

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A letterpress indenture printed on vellum with blanks for names, dates, and signatures.

  • Author: Theatre Royal (Drury Lane, London, England)
  • Title: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, rent charge of two shillings and sixpence for every night of performance …
  • Created: [London : s.n., 1793]

Catalog record

Drawer 769 793 D84

Acquired July 2012

Twenty-six beautiful folio prints…

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Printed on only one side with engraving above and letterpress text below.
Various printmakers and artists. Plates signed: T. Atkins, I, Basire, W. Jett, T. Bowles, Jos. Nicholls, Parr, W. Pritchard, and Toms.

  • Title: Twenty six beautiful folio prints, design’d by able masters, and curiously engrav’d : representing the most remarkable transactions of twenty six celebrated malefactors, either highwaymen, pyrates, murderers, shop-lifters, street-robbers, or pick-pockets. Together with an entertaining account, under each print, of the life and fortune of its particular hero or heroine, more especially of the action therein represented.
  • Published: London : Sold by J. Janeway, printer, in White-Friars; and Tho. Bakewell, printseller, in Fleet-Street; and by most booksellers in the country, MDCCXXXVI [1736]
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Folio 724 736T

Acquired December 2012

John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]

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Cover: John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]

LWL Mss Vol. 184

A stationer’s blank book recording the receipts of rental income for lands in Cumbria, in multiple hands. The book has an engraved advertisement by the seller — James Smith Stationer in Newgate Street, London — printed on the recto of the first leaf and dated 1723, on the verso an engraved image of an angel with a dove. On the back cover is the title “John Rogers. His book of receipts anno dom. […]”

Selected page: John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]

Subjects (Library of Congress): Smith, James, Stationer; Rental housing–Great Britain; Cumbria (England).

Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: September, 2010