Tag Archives: Frontispieces

The lounger’s pocket- book

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An anthology of witticisms and anecdotes predominantly concerning notable figures and events of the eighteenth century, with selections pertaining to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, The French Revolution, Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, and the American polymath Benjamin Franklin. With an engraved frontispiece depicting the interior of a bustling coffee house: Coffee House companion or rare news!’. Signed: Rt. Newman sculp.

  • Title: The lounger’s pocket- book : being a selection of the best observations, bons-mots, anecdotes historical and entertaining, of the distinguished characters in this and the last century. To which are added some remarkable pieces of poetry / by J.M. Esq. officer in the army.
  • Author: M., J., Esq
  • Published: London, 1811

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761 811 L889

Acquired May 2024

An Account Of The Musical Performances In Westminster Abbey

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  • Title: An account of the musical performances in Westminster Abbey, and the Pantheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th, and June the 3rd and 5th, 1784, in commemoration of Handel / by Charles Burney. To which is added a notice of the forthcoming Royal Musical Festival of 1834.
  • Creator: Burney, Charles, 1726-1814
  • Published: London, 1834

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74 834 B965

Acquired October 2024

Funeral procession of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte

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“View of the procession in St. George’s Chapel. The body is carried on the shoulders of some yeomen of the guard, under a canopy of black velvet, which is borne by eight gentlemen ushers, the pall is supported by baronesses who are preceded by the Lord Chamberlain and Vice Chamberlain of His Majesty’s household, Garter, Principal, King-of-Arms, bearing his sceptre, the coronet is borne by Colonel Akenbroke, and followed by the chief mourner, Prince Leopold whose train is carried by Baron de Hardenbroke and Sir Robert Gardiner; on one side is the Duke of York, on the other the Duke of Clarence, who are followed by other princes of the royal blood.”–Reid, G.W. Descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
  • Title: Funeral procession of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte [graphic] / G. Cruikshank fect.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. by W. Hone, Old Bailey, Novr. 19, 1817.

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817.11.19.01

Acquired July 2023

The Cyprian of St. Stephen’s

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  • Title: The cyprian of St. Stephen’s, or, Princely protection illustrated ; in a poetical flight to the Pierian Spring / by Sam Satiricus.
  • Published: Bath, England : J. Browne, 1809.

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53 C599 S809

Acquired April 2024

The life and adventures of Henry Lanson

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  • Title: The life and adventures of Henry Lanson, the only son of a wealthy planter in the West Indies : who, when on his voyage to England, was put on shore at an uninhabited island, where, on his perambulation up the country, he discovers the ruins of an ancient temple; and near it, the oracle of the sun, a large rude carved idol made of pure brilliant gold of a wonderful construction; which contained an immense and inestimable collection of preciouse Indian curiosoities. The manner of his converting the natives of a neighbouring island, with whom he lived several years before his departure; when he took with him an incredible quantity of riches, from the idol; and at length arrived safe in England.
  • Publication: London : Printed and sold by S. Fisher, no. 10, St. John’s Lane, Clerkenwell : Also sold by T. Hurst, no. 32, Paternoster-row, [1801]

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763 801 L722

Acquired August 2023

Description of the grand picture of the queen’s trial

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  • Author: Revelli, Vincenzo Antonio.
  • Title: Description of the grand picture of the queen’s trial; presenting correct likenesses of Her Majesty and counsel, and above two hundred other portraits of the principal nobility, with an accurate representation of the interior of the House of Lords, as it appeared on that memorable occasion / painted by V.A. Revelli … Now exhibiting, daily, at no. 80 1/2, Pall Mall.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the proprietor, 1821.

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523 C292 821

Acquired September 2022

A peep into the cottage at Windsor

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Frontispiece: The R-l great baby among the roses / Marks fec. King George IV, in caricature, naked except for breeches, reclines on a bed of roses, three large women (Mrs Quentin and her daughters) bend over him.

  • Author: Hunter, Roger, pseud.
  • Title: A peep into the cottage at Windsor, or, “Love among the roses”. : A poem founded on facts … Dedicated, with deep humility and profound respect, to all the noble and illustrious c-ck-lds in the House of peers.
  • Edition: Third edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed and published by W. Benbow, 269, Strand, 1821.

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763 H942 820

Acquired February 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

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53 M877 798

Acquired March 2022

The Greeks : a poem “Venu de France d’une manière inconnue

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  • Title: The Greeks : a poem “Venu de France d’une manière inconnue ; ” dedicated to all the legs! with notes containing the arcana of greeking at play ; and sketches of the most illustrious Greeks! / by the author of the Pigeons, Fashion, &c. …
  • Edition: Twelfth edition.
  • Published: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1817.

Catalog Record

763 817 G793

Acquired December 2021