763 820
Acquired February 2016
A satire, in verse, on the trial, etc., of Queen Caroline.
Illustrated by Isaac Robert Cruikshank.
763 820
Acquired February 2016
A collection of manuscript poem in the hand of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, entitled ‘Eclogues’, poems that describe upper-class rituals such as card playing and that mock immorality in the court of George I. While Lady Mary calls these poems “Eclogs.” Horace Walpole published them as Six Town Eclogues. In another unidentified hand on page [28] the identity of the characters in the poems are listed: Roxana, the Duchess of Roxburgh; Coquetilla, the Duchess of Sh-b-y, …
LWL Mss File 135+
Acquired October 2015
A satire on the proceedings against Queen Caroline
763 820
Acquired February 2016
Probably a Christmas poem.
With a woodcut showing a watchman with his dog with buildings including a church behind
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
File 763 752 B752++
Acquired July 2015
Sometimes wrongly attributed to William Mason; the work is a Tory answer to his Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck (1776)
53 P962 776
Acquired June 2013
763 763G
Acquired January 2013
Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat (1667/8-1747), Jacobite conspirator, army officer, and outlaw is shown sitting on a chair in a jail cell (The Tower of London?), his gouty foot raised on a small stool. He has a pen in his hand and on the table beside him rests an open journal and a box with two ink pots.
Catalog record & Digital collection
746.00.00.30+
Acquired November 2012
Contents: A journal of a late three day tour into France — Anecdotes and critical remarks — A modest defence of my late translations of Horace, against the opinions of the editors of the British critic, and The critical review — Imitations and translations — Original pieces.
Uncut in contemporary paper-backed boards, spine with original printed label.
82 798ch
Acquired December 2012
A collection of poems by Philip Howard beginning with “Privacy, a poem (in 3 parts) written in the year 1777” which appears on the first 17 leaves. Another version of a portion of the poem (starting at line 180) appears on the blank sides of five letters addressed to Robert Ellison, Esq. Great Merrybone Street, London. The poem is prefaced by a prose “Argument” and a sonnet addressed to William Mason as suggested by later references within the poem. The next two sonnets, on separate leaves, are also presumably by Howard. The first lines are “Ye, who delight your day of youth to wear” and “When to the tabor’s beat, & sounding wire”. The final section of ten leaves contains drafts of a poem identified in a preliminary note in an unidentified hand as “Poem (unfinished) on Greece & the Classic Poets, by Philip Howard of Corby c[irca] 1778. Origl. autograph ms. A clever composition.” ; Philip Howard of Corby Castle, Cumbria, poet and antiquarian, was the great-great-grandson of Lord William Howard (1563-1640).
Acquired May 2012