Les satyres de Guillaume Hogarth

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First edition after Hogarth’s death includes: “Marriage à la mode” (1745); “A Harlot’s Progress” (1731), “Gin Lane” and “Beer Lane” (1751) and “Before and After” (with titles in English and French).
“A Harlot’s Progress” printed with decorative frames on both sides.

  • Author: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
  • Title: Les satyres de Guillaume Hogarth : oeuvre moral et comique en LXIX sujets.
  • Publication: A Londres : Chez Robert Sayer, marchand de cartes et d’estampes dans Fleet-Street, No. 53, MDCCLXVIII [1768]

Catalog Record

Folio 75 H67 768C

Acquired August 2020

Theatre, Wolverhampton. On Monday evening, March the 3d, 1828

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Playbill

 

  • Title: Theatre, Wolverhampton. On Monday evening, March the 3d, 1828, will be acted George Barnwell … to conclude with the grand musical romance of Blue Beard or, Female Curiosity … the splendid entrance of Blue Beard, borne on the back of a grand majestic elephant, whose mechanical construction exhibits to the astonished spectator every movement of the real animal when alive …
  • Production: Wolverhampton : J. Smart, [1828]

Catalog Record

File 767 P69B W869 1828

Acquired August 2020

Dividend receipt from the South Sea Company

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Dividend receipt addressed “To Mr. Lockyer accomptant at the South Sea house” and annotated in the lower right by “Rich. Sarum”. The body of the document reads: “Pray pay to the bearer Mr. Daniel Gell my share of the midsumer [sic] dividend due on two thousand four hundred forty four pounds eight shillings 10d.1/2 capital stock in the South Sea Company, and this shall be a sufficient warrant. Westmr. Octr. 25 1722”.

 

  • Title: Dividend receipt from the South Sea Company : manuscript.
  • Production: Westminster, 1722 October 25.

Catalog Record

LWL Mss File 153

Acquired August 2020

Letters from the island of Teneriffe, Brazil

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  • Author: Kindersley, Mrs., author.
  • Title: Letters from the island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies / by Mrs. Kindersley.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J. Nourse, in the Strand, bookseller to His Majesty, MDDCCLXXVII [1777]

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81 777K

Acquired August 2020

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George

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National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, does not describe this edition, but does describe earlier editions, and attributes them to Julian Slight.
Above edition statement on title page: “Bound in the wood of the wreck.”

 

  • Author: Slight, Julian, author.
  • Title: A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : Tracey’s attempt to raise her in 1783 : her demolition and removal by Major-General Pasley’s operations in 1839-40-41-42 & 43 : including a statement of her sinking / written by her then flag-lieutenant, the late Admiral Sir C.P.H. Durham, G.C.B, recently commander-in-chief, at Portsmouth.
  • Edition: Eighth edition.
  • Publication: Portsea : Printed & published by S. Horsey, Sen., 43, Queen Street, 1848.

Catalog Record

64 P853 848

Acquired August 2020

Arrival of the flotilla of Admiral Howe

description belowUnsigned; attributed to Rowlandson.
Inscribed on verso: Names of the Ships taken by Lord Howe on 1st of June 1794, and brought into Portsmouth Harbour; Sans Pareille 84 Guns, L’America 74, Limpetue 84, Northumberland 84, Achille 76, La Vengeur 74.

 

  • Artist: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
  • Title: [Arrival of the flotilla of Admiral Howe into Portsmouth Harbour on 1 June 1794] [art original].
  • Production: [England], [1794]

Catalog Record

Drawings R79 no. 17 Box 2

Acquired August 2020

Song. The independent electors of Middlesex

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A slip song with the refrain “Derry down, down, &c” addressed to constituents of Middlesex to vote for independent radical candidates George Byng and Sir Francis Burdett in the upcoming local election of 1802.

 

  • Title:Song. The independent electors of Middlesex.
  • Publication:[London] : J. Abraham, Clement’s Lane, [1802]

Catalog Record

File 763 802 So698

Acquired August 2020

A separate arrangement of all the principal merchants

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  • Author: Boyle, P. (Patrick), -1808?, author.
  • Title: A separate arrangement of all the principal merchants, manufacturers, and traders in the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark : with a general index to trades. For the year 1796.
  • Publication: [London] : [P. Boyle], [1796]

Catalog Record

646 796 B792

Acquired August 2020

A sketch of modern France

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  • Author: Beaumont, Louise Elisa, 1751-1818, attributed name.
  • Title:A sketch of modern France : in a series of letters to a lady of fashion : written in the years 1796 and 1797, during a tour through France / by a Lady ; edited by C.L. Moody, LL.D. F.A.S.
  • Publication:London : Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies in the Strand, 1798.

Catalog Record

82 798Sk

Acquired August 2020