The account book kept by Assheton Curzon recording personal expenditure and management of his joint executorship, with his father Sir Nathaniel Curzon, of the affairs of his aunt Eleanor Curzon, 1754 December-1758 April.
LWL Mss Vol. 204
Acquired December 2012
Single sheet publication. Printed in two columns.
No. 7, published in 1760: “Imports from the 30th of December 1759, to the 13th of January 1760.”
Catalog record & Digital collection
File 18 H913+
Acquired December 2012
At head of title: The great illegitimates!!
Frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Jordan, with ten additional portraits: one each of William IV and their children together.
53 J762 P976
Acquired December 2012
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.
Catalog record & Digital Collection
756.02.00.01
Acquired December 2012
A collection of 140 bills and invoices made out to attorney Charles Wren or his wife Mary, dated 1793-1797, issued primarily by businesses in London and Newcastle; they document the personal and household expenses of a prosperous provincial lawyer and his household.
LWL Mss 8
Acquired December 2012
A personal account book in a single hand, Henry Boyle’s, of Edgcott, Buckinghamshire beginning January 1745 and ending October 1755, a decade of expenses including travel to France and Spain in March 1748, trips to London, Warwick, and Surrey among other places; wages to servants, payments to tradesmen for wine, clothing, tea, coffee, snuff, venison, medicines, etc.; record bank balances and notes about settling his mother’s estate. He also records receipt of payment for taxes and rents owed him. He includes details about the books he purchases and from whom as well as the occasional philosophical musings, an original song composed in Madrid, and an “infallable cure for the bite of a mad dog”.
LWL Mss Vol. 205
Acquired December 2012
Contents: A journal of a late three day tour into France — Anecdotes and critical remarks — A modest defence of my late translations of Horace, against the opinions of the editors of the British critic, and The critical review — Imitations and translations — Original pieces.
Uncut in contemporary paper-backed boards, spine with original printed label.
82 798ch
Acquired December 2012
Formerly owned by Samuel Felton, with his autograph on t.p. and ms. notes throughout. Also with the autograph of D. G. Blake on t.p.
Critical comments were contributed by George Steevens, theatrical anecdotes by Isaac Reed. See R. Paulson, Hogarth’s graphic works. 1965. ii, 79-80.
Appendix III. ‘An account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination … 1732’ [by W. Gostling]: p. 403-427.
75 H67 S781B copy 2
Acquired December 2012
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.
Folio 724 736T
Acquired December 2012
With original front and back wrappers from part one and front wrapper from Second Part bound in. Some pencil notations.
“Introductory observations on the utility of the art of engraving; the general instruction and entertainment afforded by prints; and some remarks on the difference and variety in impressions”–Signed Thomas Dodd, pp. vii-x.
125 D639 810
Acquired December 2012