A comprehensive abstract of the three Bristol police, and regulation acts

printed text

  • Author: Bristol (England)
  • Title: A comprehensive abstract of the three Bristol police, and regulation acts : passed in the fifth sessions of the sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain, and the twenty-eighth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the IIId. King of Great Britain, &c. &c.
  • Publication: Bristol : Printed by G. Routh for Sam. Johnson, 1788.

Catalog Record

64 B77 788

Acquired January 2022

The castle of Otranto : a Gothic story

printed text

  • Author: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
  • Title: The castle of Otranto : a Gothic story. / translated by William Marshall, Gent. From the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas, at Otranto.
  • Edition: A new edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for Alex. Cleugh and Co. No. 14, Ratcliff-Highway; and W. Phorson, Berwick., 1795.

Catalog Record

24 17 795C

Acquired January 2022

Eikōn basilikē. The pourtraicture of his sacred majestie…

printed text and pasted in manuscript letter

  • Author: Gauden, John, 1605-1662, author.
  • Title: Eikōn basilikē. The pourtraicture of his sacred majestie in his solitudes and sufferings.
  • Publication: [London] : [printed by John Grismond], MDCXLVIII [1648, i.e. 1649]

Catalog Record

496 1507

Acquired January 2022

Cupid and Bacchus: or, Love and the bottle

printed text

  • Title: Cupid and Bacchus: or, Love and the bottle. : Containing near six hundred favourite new songs, sung at the theatres, Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Marybone, Sadler’s-Wells, &c. &c. &c. … To which are prefix’d, brief instructions for writing songs ; rules for singing ; and an alphabetical table of the songs.
  • Published: London : Printed and sold by E. Palmer, No. 7, at the Bible, in Middle-Row, Holborn; and by most Booksellers, 1770.

Catalog Record

74 770 C974

Acquired January 2022

A tenth rejected, or, The dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox

description below

“A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer’s wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar, very dandified in shako and pelisse, stands in it, superciliously inspecting the parson through an eye-glass. The woman, who is plump and well-dressed, wearing apron and bonnet, says: Seeing your Reverence comeing for your Tithes, I have brought you a Tenth. The parson, who holds a large book, Tithe list, and has a chicken in his capacious pocket, answers with a scowl and gesture of refusal: Take it back! take it back! good Woman; I never tithe Monkeys. The little hussar says: Eh! eh! what does that there fellow say? An amused yokel with a pitchfork leans over a gate (left). A cock crows on a dunghill, an ass brays. Corn-sheaves stand in a distant field.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
  • Title: tenth rejected, or, The dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. 10th April 1824 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, [10 April 1824]

Catalog Record

824.04.10.01+

Acquired January 2022

Portrait of G.F. Handel, from a painting by Hogarth

description below

“Portrait of G.F. Handel, from a painting by Hogarth, then in the etcher’s collection; bust directed to the right, looking towards the viewer, in fur-trimmed cap and coat.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Read, David Charles, 1790-1851, printmaker.
  • Title: [Portrait of G.F. Handel, from a painting by Hogarth] [graphic].
  • Publication: [Salisbury, England] : [David Charles Read], [not after 1830]

Catalog Record

830.00.00.164+

Acquired January 2022

The extinguisher, or, Putting out the great law-luminary

description below

“Eldon’s head rests on a candle-end which is in an elaborate candle-stick of gold plate, standing on the ground. Wellington (left), in uniform, reaches up to cover it with a huge extinguisher inscribed ‘Catholic Bill Majority 168’; he says: ‘Thus I obscure you, ne’er to shine again.’ Eldon looks to the left, registering intensive melancholy; rays from his head, obstructed on the left by the extinguisher, strike against the profile of George IV, whose head, shoulder, and paunch project from the right margin, leaning towards the candle. The King says ‘Poor Old Bags!’ (Cf. British Museum Satires No. 12883.)”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker.
  • Title: The extinguisher, or, Putting out the great law-luminary [graphic] / T.J. fect.
  • Publication: London : Pubd. 1829 by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic], [April? 1829]

Catalog Record

829.04.00.18+

Acquired January 2022