The Greeks defended : illustrative of the morality of a ruined blackleg

Posted on April 17, 2023 by km55

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Author: Titled Greek.
Title: The Greeks defended : illustrative of the morality of a ruined blackleg … with notes containing some very good materials for the biography of certain notorious blacklegs, amongst whom is the cowardly author of The Greeks / by a titled Greek.
Publication: London : Printed by James Johnston, 98, Cheapside, and may be had of all booksellers, [1817]

Catalog Record

763 817 G793

Acquired December 2021

The ton : anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits

Posted on March 2, 2023 by km55

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Hand-colored etchings attributed to George Cruikshank by Cohn.

Author: Hellēn, author.
Title: The ton : anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits : dedicated to all the gossips / by the author of The Greeks … ; with six humorous prints.
Edition: Ninth edition.
Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall, 1819.

Catalog Record

63 819 H477

Acquired December 2021

The Pigeons

Posted on February 24, 2023 by km55

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Title: The Pigeons : dedicated to all the flats, and showing the artifices, success and crimes of gaming, gamesters and gambling houses … / by the author of the Greeks ; illustrated with six coloured plates.
Edition: Third edition.
Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall-Mall, 1817.

Catalog Record

763 817 G793

Acquired December 2021

An earnest and affectionate address to the common people of England

Posted on January 31, 2022 by km55

Author: Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799, author.
Title: An earnest and affectionate address to the common people of England concerning their usual recreations on Shrove Tuesday.
Edition: A new edition.
Publication: London : Printed for F. and C. Rivington, booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, No. 62, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; by Bye and law, St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell, 1800.
Manufacture: [London] : Printed by Bye and law, St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell.

Catalog Record

68 800 T891

Acquired April 2020

Authentic account of forgeries and frauds….

Posted on June 1, 2021 by km55

Uniform Title: Authentic account of forgeries and frauds of various kinds committed by Charles Price, otherwise Patch.
Title: A new edition, being a more minute and particular account of that consummate adept in deception, Charles Price, otherwise Patch, many years a stock-broker and lottery-office-keeper in London and Westminster : in this edition the whole of his various forgeries and frauds are circumstantially related … till he began that desperate undertaking of forgeries on the Bank of England … : with this edition is given as a frontispiece an exact representation of his person, in the disguise he wore when he negotiated his first parcel of counterfeit bank notes, in the year 1780, and likewise another portrait of him in his usual dress.
Publication: London : Printed for the editor, (by whose permission a part only of these memoirs first appeared in the English Chronicle) and sold by G. Kearsley, at no. 46, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXXVI [1786]

Catalog Record

53 P925 S786

Acquired April 2020

A visit to London

Posted on May 11, 2021 by km55

Six plates with titles: London from Camberwell (on the South). Blackfriar’s Bridge [illegible]. The menagerie in the Tower. Westminister Bridge, Hall, & Abbey. London Bridge & the monument. The Juvenile Library.

Author: S. W., active 1801-1820?, author.
Title: A visit to London : containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis / by S.W. ; with six copper plates.
Manufacture: London : Printed by J. Adlard, Duke-Street, Smithfield. For Tabart and Co., at the Juvenile and School Library, No. 157, New Bond-Street; and to be had of all booksellers, 1808.

Catalog Record

659 808S

Acquired March 2020

Les nuits anglaises, ou, Recueil de traits singuliers

Posted on November 12, 2020 by km55

Author: Contant d’Orville, André Guillaume, 1730?-1800, author.
Title: Les nuits anglaises, ou, Recueil de traits singuliers, d’anecdotes, d’événemens remarquables, de faits extraordinaires, de bizarreries, d’observations critiques & de pensées philosophiques, &c. propres à faire connaître le génie & le caractère des Anglais. Premiere [-quatrieme] partie.
Published: A Paris : Chez J. P. Costard, libraire, rue Saint Jean-de-Beauvais, la premiere porte cochere au-dessus du Collège, MDCCLXX [1770]

Catalog Record

63 770 C76

Acquired October 2019

The Macaroni and theatrical magazine

Posted on July 17, 2019 by km55

Articles on fashion and manners, satirizing extremes; includes theater news and anecdotes, crime news, poetry, and a monthly register of foreign and domestic occurences, with lists of bankrupts, preferments, marriages, births and deaths. Most plates are satirical illustrations of extreme fashions and their wearers.

Title: The Macaroni and theatrical magazine, or Monthly register, of the fashions and diversions of the times. Conducted upon a much more elegant and liberal plan, than any other work of the kind hitherto published.
Published: London : Printed for the authors, and sold by John Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street, MDCCLXXII. [1772, i.e. 1773]

Catalog Record

61 M115

Acquired October 2018

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The Greeks defended : illustrative of the morality of a ruined blackleg

The ton : anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits

The Pigeons

An earnest and affectionate address to the common people of England

Authentic account of forgeries and frauds….

A visit to London

Les nuits anglaises, ou, Recueil de traits singuliers

The Macaroni and theatrical magazine

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