Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library June 2022

The march of intellect

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An aspirational dustman in ragged clothes, a monocle hanging from his hat, and smoking a cigar, sits in a chair before the hearth reading a book, “An introduction to the pleasures of … schince by Barnart Botherum […] dedicated to the majesty of the people”. On the table are bowl, a goblet and a bottle of Port. On the wall hangs a landscape and on the mantel a bust of Shakespeare. The dog at his feet stares at the fire, the bones of fish dinner on a plate beside him. A large bell sits on the floor beside the dustman.

 

  • Printmaker: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker.
  • Title: The march of intellect [graphic] / H. Heath del.
  • Publication: London : Published April 1828 by S. Maunder, 10 Newgate Street, [April 1828]

Catalog Record

828.04.00.03

Acquired June 2022

Punishment of the Tcha

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“A Chinese man undergoing punishment, with his head and right hand locked into a sort of stocks formed of planks of wood onto which are nailed placards, with a guard and onlookers.”–British Museum online catalogue.

 

  • Printmaker: Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker.
  • Title: Punishment of the Tcha [graphic] / W. Alexander del. ; Ino. Hall sculp.
  • Publication: London : Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol, [12 April 1796]

Catalog Record

796.04.12.03+

Acquired June 2022

A little man’s night’s comforts

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Napoleon in bed wearing a nightshirt holds a map of Malta while visions of poison, soldiers poisoned in the hospital at Jaffe, the massacre at Paris 18 Vendimiaire, the invasion of England, ghosts of the 3800 murdered Turks on the sand hills of Syria, the surrender of Ajacio in 1793, Wellington seeking revenge, his attempting poison and murder by his own soldiers.

 

  • Title: A little man’s night’s comforts, or, Boney’s visions [graphic] / Lt. B.
  • Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], pubd. 14 July 1803.

Catalog Record

803.07.14.01+

Acquired June 2022

Fish

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A full-length depiction of a female fishmonger composed of fish: her hat is a lobster, her dress a large fillet of a angel (?) fish, her arms composed of various other fish, whole or parts. Behind her a barrel of oysters on a wooden stool.

 

  • Title: Fish [graphic] / G. Spratt del.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, 1830.
  • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by G.E. Madeley, Wellington St., Strand

Catalog Record

830.00.00.166

Acquired June 2022

At Mr. Christopher Towles, in High-Street

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  • Author: Towle, Christopher.
  • Title: At Mr. Christopher Towles, in High-Street, in Coventry, and at Miss Towles, in Penny-Farthing-Street, in Oxford. Young ladies are genteely boarded, and taught … Mr. Towle, teaches all sorts of English, French, Italion [sic], and Flemish, slow and quick dances … Signed by me Christopher Towle.
  • Published: Newport-Pagnell : Printed by B. Leverett …, [1783]

Catalog Record

File 659 783T

Acquired June 2022

A letter to the Right Honourable the Lady V—ss V—

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Letter to the Right Honourable the Lady Vicountess Vane

  • Title: A letter to the Right Honourable the Lady V—ss V—, occasioned by the publication of her memoirs in The adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
  • Publication: London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, with Temple-Bar, 1751.

Catalog Record

53 V249 751

Acquired June 2022

Legal compendium compiled by a magistrate summarizing statutes

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manuscript notebook

Pocket-sized manuscript legal compendium compiled by a Georgian magistrate around 1752, likely in Northamptonshire, as evinced by the sample legal forms included at the beginning. The main content of the volume is arranged under subject headings with references and extracts relating to relevant statutes: “Ale houses & ale house-keepers … Apprentices … Arrests … Assaults … Bakers … Brewers … Bricks & tiles … Bridges … Bail … Burglary … Butchers … Buttons … Callico & cambricks … Cloth & clothiers … Constables … Corn … Cottages & clergy … Counterfeiting … Deer & deerstalkers … Distillers … Dyers … Evidence & examination … Excise … Felony … Fish & fishing … Forcible entry … Game … Gaming … Gaols … Gun powder … Hawkers & pedlars …”

  • Title: Legal compendium compiled by a magistrate summarizing statutes by subject on matters relating to law and order : manuscript.
  • Production: Northamptonshire?, England, circa 1752?

Catalog Record

LWL Mss Vol. 277

Acquired June 2022

Extracts, describing the ancient manner of placing the kingdom…

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  • Title: Extracts, describing the ancient manner of placing the kingdom in military array : the various modes of defence adopted for its safety in periods of danger : and the evidence of foreigners as to the national character and personal bravery of the English : taken from original state papers of the sixteenth century collected on the continent, and hitherto inedited.
  • Published: London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. … and sold by G. and W. Nicol …, 1803.

Catalog Record

63 803 Ex96

Acquired June 2022

The celebrated ballad of Sweet robin

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musical score

  • Creator: Cooke, T. (Thomas), 1782-1848.
  • Uniform Title: [Sweet robin]
  • Title: The celebrated ballad of Sweet robin, as sung at teh Theatre Royal by Mrs. Cooke : arranged with an accompaniment for the piano forteĢ or harp / by T. Cooke.
  • Publication: London : Printed by Goulding, D’Almaine, Potter, & Co., 20, Soho Square, & 7, Westmorland Strt., Dublin, [1810?]

Catalog Record

Quarto 74 824 C773

Acquired June 2022