Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library December 2021

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

The Greeks defended : illustrative of the morality of a ruined blackleg

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  • Author: Titled Greek.
  • Title: The Greeks defended : illustrative of the morality of a ruined blackleg … with notes containing some very good materials for the biography of certain notorious blacklegs, amongst whom is the cowardly author of The Greeks / by a titled Greek.
  • Publication: London : Printed by James Johnston, 98, Cheapside, and may be had of all booksellers, [1817]

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763 817 G793

Acquired December 2021

The ton : anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits

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Hand-colored etchings attributed to George Cruikshank by Cohn.

  • Author: Hellēn, author.
  • Title: The ton : anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits : dedicated to all the gossips / by the author of The Greeks … ; with six humorous prints.
  • Edition: Ninth edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall, 1819.

Catalog Record

63 819 H477

Acquired December 2021

The Pigeons

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  • Title: The Pigeons : dedicated to all the flats, and showing the artifices, success and crimes of gaming, gamesters and gambling houses … / by the author of the Greeks ; illustrated with six coloured plates.
  • Edition: Third edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall-Mall, 1817.

Catalog Record

763 817 G793

Acquired December 2021

John Broughton, prize fighter

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“Copy of a man with shaven head (James Figg) in casual dress, holding quarter-staff in his right hand and round-brimmed hat in the left, standing whole length to front in a landscape, with head tilted to right, glancing towards the viewer, smiling with lips parted; after a painting by Hogarth in a private collection.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Ross, F., active 1828-1849, printmaker.
  • Title: John Broughton, prize fighter [graphic] : from the original picture (of the same size) by William Hogarth, in the collection of Henry Ralph Willett, Esqre. of Merly House, in the County of Dorset / W. Hogarth ; F. Ross.
  • Publication: London : Published for the proprietor March 25th, 1842, by W. & G. Smith, 24 Lisle Street, Leicester Square, [25 March 1842]
  • Manufacture: [London] : C. Graf, lith. to Her Majesty

Catalog Record

842.00.00.07+

Acquired December 2021

Sacred dramas : chiefly intended for young persons

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  • Author: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
  • Title: Sacred dramas : chiefly intended for young persons. The subjects taken from the Bible / by Hannah More ; with a memoir of the author.
  • Publication: Chiswick [i.e. London] : C. and C. Whittingham; Sold by Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside; N. Hailes, Piccadilly; Bowdery and Kerby, Oxford Street, London; and Richard Griffin and Co., Glasgow, 1827.
  • Manufacture: Chiswick [i.e. London] : C. and C. Whittingham.

Catalog Record

53 M813 827

Acquired December 2021

The pilgrims : an allegory

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  • Author: More, Hannah, 1745-1833, author.
  • Title: The pilgrims : an allegory.
  • Publication: [London] : Sold by J. Evans & Son, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts), No. 41 and 42, Long-lane, West-Smithfield; and J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly, London; by J. Binns, Bath:– and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country, [between 1813 and 1820?]

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61 C41 M813 P

Acquired December 2021

Packwood’s address, he’s not lesser, a perfumer than hair-dresser

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An advertisement in verse, with two columns of letterpress text beginning “With humblest deference we greet …”; wood-engraved illustration at top depicting two ladies trying on wigs both facing a bust with “Princes’ Royal” on plinth; an “Explanation” printed below in five lines; all within a typographic ornament border.

  • Author: Packwood, George.
  • Title: Packwood’s address, he’s not lesser, a perfumer than hair-dresser.
  • Publication: [London] : W. Bailey, printer […], [1788]

Catalog Record

File 66 788 P119

Acquired December 2021

The history of Donna Eugenia, or, The innocent adulteress

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  • Title: The history of Donna Eugenia, or, The innocent adulteress : in which is exemplified the bad effects of disproportionate ages in marriage, the consequence of indulging in illegitimate passion and revenge, and the beneficial result of timely repentance.
  • Publication: London : Printed by Lewis and Hamblin, Paternoster-Row; for Langley and Belch, 173, Borough High-Street, 1807.

Catalog Record

659 807H

Acquired December 2021