Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library July 2021

Tight lacing

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An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady’s cork rump, tightens her stays

  • Title: Tight lacing [graphic] / RS [monogram] ; J.H.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. 5 Marh. 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho …, [5 March 1777]

Catalog Record

777.03.05.01.1

Acquired July 2021

The authentic history of Zoa, the beautiful Indian

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  • Title: The authentic history of Zoa, the beautiful Indian, (daughter of Henriette de Bellgrave), and of Rodomond, an East-India merchant, whom Zoa releases from confinement and intended death, and with him escapes to England ; to which is added, Lisette and Login, an affecting Russian tale.
  • Publication: London : Published by Dean & Munday, Threadneedle-Street, [between 1808 and 1816]
  • Manufacture: [London] : Dean & Munday, printers, Threadneedle-Street.

Catalog Record

763 808 Au939

Acquired July 2021

The ladies complete letter-writer

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  • Title: The ladies complete letter-writer : teaching the art of inditing letters … Being a collection of letters, written by ladies … the whole forming a polite and improving manual …
  • Edition: The second edition, with corrections and additions.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the editor, and sold by T. Lownds in Fleet-Street, [1765]

Catalog Record

19 765L

Acquired July 2021

The Cambridge chronicle and journal

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printed newspaper

  • Title: The Cambridge chronicle and journal.
  • Publication: Cambridge [England] : Printed by T. Fletcher & F. Hodson, at their office on the Market-Hill, and near the Senate-House: where all sorts of blank warrants, orders of removal, … &c. are printed elegantly and correctly; with every other kind of business on the letter and rolling press, 1767-1836.

Catalog Record

Folio 61 C178

Acquired July 2021

The history of Prince Lee Boo

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  • Uniform Title: Prince Lee Boo.
  • Title: The history of Prince Lee Boo : son of Abba Thulle, King of the Pelew Islands : brought to England by Captain Wilson, commander of the Antelope, East India packet, which was wrecked off these islands, on her passage, from China, on the 9th, of August, 1783 : with an account of Lee Boo’s death : and he was buried in Rotherhithe Church-Yard, where a tomb is erected in his memory.
  • Publication: London : Printed for Thomas Hughes, 35, Ludgate Street, 1824.
  • Manufacture: [London] : Plummer and Brewis, Printers, Love Lane, Eastcheap)

Catalog Record

659 824P

Acquired July 2021

The licensed victuallers’ companion and publicans’ guide

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  • Title: The licensed victuallers’ companion and publicans’ guide : comprising a variety of importamt matter relative to this respectable class of society … with observations on porter, ale, wine, and spirits … to which is added, lists of London porter, ale, & table beer brewers.
  • Publication: London : Knight and Lacey, publishers, 55, Paternoster-Row, 1824.
  • Manufacture: [London] : Milne and Banfield, 76, Fleet Street.

Catalog Record

63 L698 824

Acquired July 2021