Frontispiece to Useful Knowledge

description below

A sheet with 25 vignettes in roughly five rows, each with a humorous or satirical scene or a visual pun and each captioned with names of trades, industry, or arts. At the center of the page is a caricature of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham in his long, curl wig and a collar, holding a broom in his left hand, with the caption “The Title page and Index” below. One of many such frontispieces of the period mocking the political and educational movements bringing information and knowledge to the working classes.

  • Title: Frontispiece to Useful Knowledge [graphic] / W. Newman invent.
  • Publication: London: Pubd. by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside,[between 1833 and 1835]
  • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by R. Redman

Catalog Record

833.00.00.18

Acquired December 2023

A practical guide for the light infantry officer

printed text

  • Author: Cooper, Thomas Hammont.
  • Title: A practical guide for the light infantry officer : comprising valuable extracts from all the most popular works on the subject ; with further original information … / by Capt. T.H. Cooper.
  • Publication: London : Printed for T. Egerton, at the Military Library, near Whitehall, 1806.

Catalog Record

63 806 T778

Acquired December 2023

The festival of wit; or, Small talker

printed text

  • Title: The festival of wit; or, Small talker : being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c., of the most exalted characters / procured and selected by G— K—, summer resident at Windsor.
  • Edition: The fifteenth edition, with considerable additions.
  • Publication: London : Printed for M. Smith; and, by the Editor’s permission, sold by the booksellers in Fleetstreet, Piccadilly, and Paternoster Row, M,DCC,LXXXIX.[1789]

Catalog Record

761 F418

Acquired December 2023

The Yorkshire memorandum book

printed text

  • Title: The Yorkshire memorandum book; or, Daily journal, for the year 1796. : Containing ruled writing-paper, for the purpose of keeping accounts of receipts, disbursements, appointments, &c. Also the following useful particulars: I. Members of the Corporation of York. II. Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of York … XXII. Racing calendar, containing an account of the races for legal prizes in Great Britain in the year 1795.
  • Publication: York : Printed and sold by W. Blanchard; also sold by Mr. Richardson, under the Royal-Exchange, London; and by the booksellers of York &c. &c. &c., [1796]

Catalog Record

145 Yo65 1795

Acquired December 2023

Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects

frontispiece

Leaf [1], title page plate; leaves [2]-[29] with plates numbered 1-36 with scenes cottages and views of rural areas; leaves [30]-[34] with plates 37-44 with images of allegorical and mythical figures; leaf [35] with plate numbered 45, a woman with a tub; leaf [36] with plates 46-47 two men in profile; leaf [37] with plate 47, a portrait of “T.K. [that is, Thomas Kirgate] Painted & etch’d by EE. Finish’d by I. Hall”; leaf [38] with plates 49-50 with classical motifs, cherubs and scrollwork; leaf [39] with plate 51, sea creatures and syrens.
Many plates signed “E.E.’ and dated 1784-1790.

  • Printmaker: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, printmaker.
  • Title: Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects / designed and etched by Edward Edwards Associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1790.
  • Manufacture: [1794].

Catalog Record

Quarto 75 Ed96 794

Acquired December 2023

Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem

frontis & title page

  • Title: Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem / by the late Professor Porson ; to which are added The modern fine gentleman, Modern fine Lady, Curtain lectures, and the squire and the parson.
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall, 1819.
  • Manufacture: [London] : M. Brown, printer, 86, St. Martin’s Lane

Catalog Record

53 P81 819

Acquired December 2023

The Mufflechop family. No. 3

description below

Third in a series of twelve comical prints telling the story of Mr. and Mrs. Mufflechop, beginning with their engagement and ending with their first child going off to school.

  • Title: The Mufflechop family. No. 3 [graphic] : The bridal morning.
  • Publication: [London] : Published by T. Pewtress, 67 Newington Causeway, & Ackermannn [sic] & Co., 96 Strand, [approximately 1830]

Catalog Record

830.00.00.170

Acquired December 2023

Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi

title page

With two plates after Marcellus Laroon both depicting Quakers, one showing a Quaker man and the second a Quaker woman, both dated 1690.

  • Author: Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798, printmaker.
  • Title: Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi [graphic] / by Ben. Green of X’s [i.e. Christ’s] Hospital.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1773.

Catalog Record

75 G795 773

Acquired December 2023

Sketches of traditional Indian dress

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Collection of twelve 19th-century Anglo-Indian representations of traditional Indian clothing for various trades and stations of life, each captioned below with the subject’s occupation. Included are two female subjects, ‘My Ayah or Lady’s Maid’ and a water bearer, alongside ten male subjects. Among the depicted males are a ‘Native Officer’, ‘A Peon or Policeman’, and a ‘Moonshee or Teacher of Languages’, the latter having the only geographical indication of origin (‘Bangalore’ given to its verso).

  • Creator: O’Connor, Mrs., attributed name.
  • Title: [Sketches of traditional Indian dress] [art original].
  • Production: [India?], [1831 or later]

Catalog Record

Drawings Oc18 no. 1

Acquired December 2023

Invitation to a dinner with the governors of the Magdalen Hospital

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With an engraved vignette, presumably depicting a Magdalen sister, at top. nvitation to dine with the governors of the Whitechapel Magdalen Hospital at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, following a sermon in the chapel of the hospital.

  • Creator: Magdalen Hospital (London, England)
  • Title: [Invitation to a dinner with the governors of the Magdalen Hospital].
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1775]

Catalog Record

File 66 775 L984+

Acquired December 2023