Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library July 2023

A particular account of Thomas Smith

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A broadside recording the details of a murder of Ann Clark, committed by the accused Thomas Smith her lodger in Dorchester and the subsequent arrest and trial of Smith for the crime. Clark hanged himself the night before his planned execution.

  • Title: A particular account of Thomas Smith : who was to have been executed at Dorchester, 19 March, 1804, for the wilful murder of Ann Clark of Briant’s Piddle, in the county of Dorset.
  • Publication: [Dorchester, England] : E. Lockett, printer, Dorchester, [1804]

Catalog Record

File 523 Sm662 804

Acquired July 2023

To the memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte

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Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of a mourning Britannia and British Lion in front of Princess Charlotte‘s tomb, which is located under a weeping willow and is adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Sixteen lines of verse are engraved at the bottom, signed “J. Thompson”.

  • Author: Thompson, J., author.
  • Title: To the memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales & Saxe-Cobourg : who died Novr. 6th, 1817 / J. Thompson.
  • Publication: London : Published by S. Rothwell, 3 Hatfield St., Blackfriars Road, [1817]

Catalog Record

File 56 C47 817T

Acquired July 2023

Caroline, Queen of England

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Portrait of Queen Caroline seated on a red armchair wearing a black dress with frilled collar and a black feather hat.

  • Creator: Contencin, P., artist.
  • Title: Caroline, Queen of England [graphic] / drawn by P. Contencin.
  • Production: [England], [approximately 1820]

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Drawings Un58 no. 98 Box D166

Acquired July 2023

Virtuous royalty. : A tear of respect to the memory

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Engraved broadside poem published shortly after the death of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, father of the future Queen Victoria. The verses also commemorate Princess Charlotte, three years after her untimely death in 1817. With six vignette illustrations: at the top are images of the Duke of Kent, Kensington Palace, and the Duchess of Kent; and at the foot are images of Prince Leopold, Claremont House, and Princess Charlotte.

  • Title: Virtuous royalty. : A tear of respect to the memory of a generous & patriotic prince, and to a beloved but not forgotten princess, and of sympathy to the bereaved royal survivors.
  • Publication: [London] : Engraved & published 23rd March 1820 by Jas. Debaufer, 11 Creed Lane, Ludgate Street, [23 March 1820]

Catalog Record

File 56 C47 820V+

Acquired July 2023

The knight-errant, or, The distressed Queen

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Two slip songs printed on one sheet, in two columns, each titled separately. The songs are in celebration of Queen Caroline’s return to England in 1820. The three woodcuts are two crude images of a woman and a small ship.
Printer’s statement from first column. Additional printer’s statement in second column: Pitts, printer and wholesale toy warehouse, 6 Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials.

  • Title: The knight-errant, or, The distressed Queen ; Queen Caroline lov’d in our island. / The words by T.L.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, [1820]

Catalog Record

File 53 C292 820Kn

Acquired July 2023

The new manual and platoon exercises

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A military-drill aid, dissected into twelve panels, providing a step-by-step pictorial guide to basic infantry exercises ‘as practised by His Majesty’s Army’. The whole consists of two separate evolutions: ‘Manual Exercise’ in eight steps, which involves the fixing and use of bayonets but with no firing or reloading; and ‘Platoon Exercise’ in ten steps, including the firing of muskets and subsequent reloading. Each dissected panel features two steps, with the three remaining panels containing the ‘Position of an Officer’ and ‘3 Ranks. Make Ready’, the decorated title vignette, and ”3 Ranks. Present – Fire’ alongside a detailed schematic of a musket, in both assembled and disassembled forms. Engraved after the work of English artist and printmaker Robert Dighton, this guide was issued at the beginning of the most acute stage of the first Napoleonic invasion scare and sold folded in a slipcase.

  • Title: The new manual and platoon exercises, as practised by His Majesty’s Army [graphic] / Dighton del.
  • Publication: London : Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul’s Church Yard, published 2 Jan 1795.

Catalog Record

795.01.02.01+

Acquired July 2023

Bowyer’s History of England Lottery

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  • Author: Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834.
  • Title: Bowyer’s History of England Lottery. : Price of the tickets three guineas each; which are now selling at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, and at Mr. Bowter’s office for the city, no. 73, Cornhill …
  • Publication: [London] : [Robert Bowyer], [1807?]
  • Copyright notice date: [London] : T. Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street

Catalog Record

File 66 807 B786+

Acquired July 2023

A babe’s diverting dream

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In two columns with two woodcuts beneath the title.
A satire on the Milan Commission and the British government’s attempt to compile evidence of Queen Caroline’s misbehaviour and infidelity. Printed together with ‘A New Song’ on the same subject.

  • Title: A babe’s diverting dream.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed by Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, [1820]

Catalog Record

File 53 C292 820Ba

Acquired July 2023