Single issue only. This twice weekly account of the price of money, precious metals, grain, cochineal, stocks, bonds, lottery tickets, Exchequer annuities, etc. began publishing 1719, ran to at least 1758.
Acquired July, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
Acquired July, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
An invitation to a dinner with the president, vice president and governors of the Lying-in Charity at the Pauls Head Tavern, Cateaton Street. Includes a list of 12 stewards and the announces the date of the sermon to be preached by the Right Revd. Samuel Lord Bishop of Gloucester at St. Martin’s in the Fields.
File 66 786 L984
Acquired July 2011
Manuscript account book prepared by William Sikes for Sir William Lowther’s estate at Swillington, West Yorkshire. Sikes, presumably the estate manager, provides a clear and precise record of the receipts and disbursements for the seven month period between 25 May 1738 and December 1738 (dated in the Old Style 1 January 1738). Included in his accounting are the names of the tenants in cottages in the surrounding villages with listing of the receipts and expenditures for; housekeeping expenses; servants liveries; farming; repairs; laborers; crop figures and livestock. The final section describes the output of the colliery in Preston and the disbursements for running the enterprise.
Acquired July, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
New and easy grammar of the English tongue for the Italians.
Acquired July, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
![Ticket for the installation in the [blank] of St. George's chapel](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lwlpr21857.jpg "Ticket for the installation in the [blank] of St. George's chapel")
An engraved ticket with the arms of the Order of the Garter.
Acquired July 2011, by the Lewis Walpole Library.
Plate appears in: A description of nine historical prints representing kings, queens, princes, … / selected, drawn, and engraved from the original paintings by George Vertue.
Acquired July, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.
![[Cover] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lwlpr21858.jpg "[Cover] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle")
![[Selection 1] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lwlpr21859.jpg "[Selection 1] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle")
![[Selection 2] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lwlpr21860.jpg "[Selection 2] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle")
Collection of proofs for fourteen illustrations for William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel Windsor Castle, all but the first trimmed and laid into larger sheets; all are double-ruled in blue and red ink. The first plate “Plan of Windsor Castle 1843” has been mounted on the sheet and ruled in red and blue ink and serves as a title page: “Windsor Castle. A Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth.”. The leaves are numbered in blue ink beginning with 56 and ending with 69. Each leave is titled at the head “Windsor Castle” and eleven of the prints are captioned below. One caption has been erased, and the other two are blank.Space
- Author: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
- Title: [A collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel Windsor Castle], [ca. 1843].
- Published: [England, 1843]