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Frontispiece to Le Brun's 'Passions' (left) and a face expressing tranquillity (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1698, after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Date: 1713Reference: 33333i- Pictures
Frontispiece to English edition of Charles Le Brun's designs of the human passions. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after J. Audran, 1727.
Reference: 32518i
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Frontispiece to an English edition of Charles Le Brun's 'Expressions of the passions of the soul' (left); a face expressing attention. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Reference: 32338i
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Frontispiece to "Etchings of remarkable beggars itinerant traders and other persons of notoriety in London and its environs by John Thomas Smith". Coloured etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 1 December 1815Reference: 43966i- Archives and manuscripts
M0007380: Frontispiece from Pharmacopoea Leidensis…
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0007385: Frontispiece from Les oeuvres pharmaceutiques
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/40Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself; 1894. Frontispiece
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M0007365: Frontispiece from The expert doctor's dispensary...
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/30Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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M0007302: Frontispiece from D. Christoph Heinrich Keil's Chirurgisches
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/62/77Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0007382: Frontispiece from Bremore's catalogue, 18th century
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/38Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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M0006908: Frontispiece for Horti Medici Rariorum Plantarum Historia
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/76Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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M0006943: Frontispiece to an anatomical book depicting nude figures on a podium
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/10Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0007363: Frontispiece from Epitome institutionum medicinae, et librorum de febribus …
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/29Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The exhibition in hell; or, Moloch turn'd painter With a Frontispiece placed just where it should be.
Moloch.Date: [1771?]
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Sir Francis Galton and some of his Noteworthy Ancestors, Frontispiece Vol 1, Treasury of Human Inheritance, edited by Karl Pearson, London, Dulau and Co, 1912
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Hymnal, 1679, Frontispiece and headpiece, showing a minature of Joachim and Anna under a tree (left), and the headpiece of the Canon of Joachin and Ann with decorated capitals in the form of birds (right)
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Proposals for printing by subscription, In one Volume in Quarto, A Commentary Critical and Theological Upon the learned Mr. William Warburton's apologetical Dedication to the Reverend Dr. Henry Stebbing. Containing The entire Prolegomena to the said Work, With a Curious Frontispiece. By Martinus Scriblerus junior.
Ashton, James-Brown.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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A treatise on the use and abuse of tobacco, tending to shew why this plant is hurtful to the nervous system in particular, and of course to the whole human frame in general; the beneficial use of tobacco is also considered; by Edward Teare, surgeon, Doncaster, Together with an appropriate Frontispiece engraved by The Author.
Teare, Edward.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke, selected from their speeches, from the year 1770, down to the present time. With a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public. With a Frontispiece of Fox, North, and Burke; and a Print highly emblematical of the present political State of the Country. Spectemur Agendo.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke, selected from their speeches, from the year 1770, down to the present time. With a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public. With a Frontispiece of Fox, North, and Burke; and a Print highly emblematical of the present political State of the Country.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Apollo's lyre; being a selection of the most approved songs, including those sung at Vauxhall, Theatres Royal, &c. to which are added, the favourite new songs sung at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in the year 1793. Embellished with a Frontispiece, clucidating the Title; & a beautiful Vignette, representing Jack Oakum meeting his Girl. See page 41.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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Just published, Price 3s. 6d. in Boards, correctly printed on a Writing Post Paper, embellished with a Frontispiece, and Vignette Title, designed and etched by the celebrated Mr. Rowlandson, the Lyric Repository. A Collection of original ancient and modern Songs, Duets, Catches, Glees, and Cantatas, distinguished for their poetical and literary Merit, many of which are written by Dr. Johnson, Peter Pindar, Esq. R. B. Sheridan, Esq. Mr. Warton, W. Hayley, Esq. W. Cowper, Esq. General Burgoyne, George Keate, Esq. Lord Littleton, Captain Morris, Mr. O'Keeffe, Rev. Henry Bate Dudley, George Colman, Esq. Mr. Jackson, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Dibdin, Miss Smith, Mrs. Cowley, And other eminent Writers. They will be classed in the following Order: 1. Elegiac, pastoral, and pathetic: 2. Humourous, witty, and characteristic: 3. Convivial and bacchanalian: 4. Miscellaneous: 5. Hunting: And, 6. Sea Songs: Catches, Cantatas, Duets, and Glees: The Whole accurately arranged to form the most classical Selection ever published. The second Volume, which is now printing and will finish the Work, will be published on the 4th of June, ornamented with an elegant Engraving. An Edition is printed on good common Paper, Price 2s. 6d. sewed, for the more general Accommodation of the Public. The List of Subscribers will be given in the last Volume. Printed for J. French, Bookseller, No 164, Fenchurch-Street, And to be had of all the Booksellers in Town and Country.
Date: 1787]- Books
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A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made Clear, by Various Moveable Schemes, and Diagrams, in the Most Intelligent Manner. In four books. Embellished with an Elegant Frontispiece and Forty-Eight Plates. Containing Diagrams, Views, and Original Designs, in Architecture, &c. By the Author; Elegantly Engraved. Book I. Treats on Optics and Vision, a necessary Introduction to the Theory of Perspective; and contains some Objections to the received Opinions of Light and Colour; Reflection, &c. Book II. Contains the whole useful Theory of Perspective, both rectilinear and curvilinear; with Remarks, and familiar Examples, to illustrate and evince the universality of its Principles; with a full refutation of the absurd opinions which several Persons entertain of Perspective. Book III. Is a copious Treatise on practical Perspective. In which, is first displayed the true Elements of the whole, as deduced from the foregoing Theory; their extensive application is pointed out, and exemplified throughout the whole Book; and, by the most simple means possible, is shewn how to project, perspectively, all kinds of regular objects, from the simplest to the most complex; also, how far it is applicable to irregular Objects. Comprized in twelve Sections, on various Subjects, and adapted to various Professions. Book IV. Treats on shadows in general, in Theory and Practice, projected by the Sun, also by a Torch or Candle; of reflected Light on Objects, and the reflected Images of Objects, on the Surface of Water, and polished, plane Surfaces, of Aireal Perspective, or the effect of Distance, &c. In six Sections, containing nine Plates, which illustrate the whole. By Thomas Malton.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The young moralist, consisting of allegorical and entertaining essays, in prose and verse; compiled from various authors; Chiefly Designed to implant the Principles of Virtue and Morality in the Minds of Young Gentlemen and Ladies. - Adorned with Cuts, and a beautiful Frontispiece, elegantly Engraved by Page. Third edition, enlarged, by G. Wright, Esq; Author of Thoughts in younger Life.
Wright, George, Esq.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Scacchia ludus: or, the game of chess. A poem. Written originally in Latin by Marcus Hieronymus Vida, Bishop of Alba. Translated into English by Mr. Erskine. With a short introductory essay on the game of chess; and a translation of Vida's three pastoral eclogues. By Mr. Craig. The whole adorn'd with a handsome Frontispiece, and a Curious Head of Vida.
Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]