Tag Archives: Prospectuses

Published…two historical engravings,…naval and military events…

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  • Title: Published by subscription, two historical engravings, from the most important naval and military events. The one representing the grand naval victory over the French fleet, on the glorious first of June, by the British under the command of Earl Howe … . : The other, the memorable attack on the heights of Famars before Valenciennes, by the combined armies, under the command of His Royal Highness, the Duke of York … from pictures by Mather Brown … now engraving, and in great forwardness, by Mr. Daniel Orme.
  • Publication: [London] : [Daniel Orme], MDCCXCV [1795]

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File 75 Or73 795+

Acquired June 2024

The medical & political record, a new Sunday paper

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  • Title: The medical & political record, a new Sunday paper. : Prospectus.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed and published by C. Kerwood, at the Medical and Political Record Office, John Street, Edgware Road …, [1820]

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File 66 820 M489

Acquired November 2023

A copy from Enthusiasm delineated

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A prospectus of a print which was publishd by John Ireland on November 12th, 1795

 

  • Author: Ireland, John, -1808, author.
  • Title: A copy from Enthusiasm delineated, a very curious print, designed and engraved by Hogarth, of which there are only two impressions, both of them in the possession of John Ireland …
  • Publication: [London] : [John Ireland], [1795]

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75 H67 S795Ir

Acquired September 2022

To the worthy inhabitants of the Parish of All Soul’s District

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Printed handbill with ornamental border soliciting funds and warning against persons who “go about with intent to defraud us and impose upon you … “

  • Author: Harris, William
  • Title: To the worthy inhabitants of the Parish of All Soul’s District, Marylebone : we the regular dustmen of this parish, in the employ of Mr. John Gore, make humble application to you for a Christmas box which you are usually so kind as to give, we bring our token, which is a copper medal … / William Harris ; Thomas Worley.
  • Published: [London : Beckett, printer, 45 Marylebone Lane, 1823.]

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File 63 823 H317

Acquired December 2007

Poems, lyric and pastoral

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Cover: Poems, lyric and pastoral

Bookplates: Poems, lyric and pastoral

Title: Poems, lyric and pastoral

Edward Williams also wrote under the pseudonym Iolo Morganwg.

  • Author: Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826.
  • Title: Poems, lyric and pastoral : in two volumes / by Edward Williams.
  • Published: London : Printed for the author by J. Nichols, and sold by J. Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul’s Church-Yard; J. Owen, No. 158 Piccadilly; E. Williams, No. 11 Strand; Darton and Harvey, Grace-Church Street; by all the booksellers in Bath; Fletcher, Oxford; Merrill, Cambridge; Brown and Lloyd, Bristol; Harward, Cheltenham; and Pritchard, Philadelphia, 1794.

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Acquired September, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

The soldier’s companion : containing instructions for the drill, manual, and platoon exercise …

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Minerva Press

The soldier’s companion : containing instructions for the drill, manual, and platoon exercise …

The seventh edition, with amendments and improvements

London : Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane and Newman ; and sold by every bookseller in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c., [1803]

File 66 803 So43

The soldier’s companion : containing instructions for the drill, manual, and platoon exercise ...

The soldier’s companion : containing instructions for the drill, manual, and platoon exercise ...

The soldier’s companion : containing instructions for the drill, manual, and platoon exercise ...

The soldier’s companion...

The soldier’s companion...

The soldier’s companion...

Subjects (Library of Congress): Soldiers–Conduct of life–Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Material: Prospectuses; Annotations (Provenance)

Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: 2009