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The mirrour. A comedy. In three acts. With the author's life, and an account of the alterations.
Dell, Henry, active 1756-1766.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Humorous sketches; satyrical strokes, and Attic observations. By George Parker, Author of the View of Society and Manners.
Parker, George, 1732-1800.Date: [1782?]- Books
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The scornful lady, a comedy. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher.
Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The cambrian directory, or, cursory sketches of the Welsh territories. With a chart, comprehending at one view, the advisable route - best inns - distances - and objects most worthy of attention.
Cliff, of Worcester.Date: 1800- Books
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The Baptist annual register, for 1794, 1795, 1796 - 1797, including sketches of the state of religion among different denominations of good men at home and abroad. By John Rippon, D.D.
Rippon, John, 1751-1836.Date: [1797?]- Books
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Address to the sovereigns of Europe etc. etc. In two parts. By Obadia Prim. Part second. The first part contains an Appeal to the Sovereigns of Europe, to Proprietors, Merchants and all Well - wishers of social order - with a sketch of the Conduct of the Legislators of France during the Revolution. The second part contains a Letter to Bnonaparte on his Military and Political Conduct - To which are annexed I0 The principles of morality as decreed and acknowledged by the different legislative bodies of France. II0 A summary, in order of dates, of the most remarkable crimes committeed since the beginning of the Revolution - a table of the contributions, requisitions, forced loans etc.
Winsor, F. A. (Frederick Albert), 1763-1830.Date: [1798]- Books
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Downpatrick, July 17, 1790. (Sixty-seventh day.) At the close of the poll this day, for Knights of the Shire to represent the county of Down in a Parliament, the numbers stood as follow: Earl of Hillsborough - 352[2] George Matthews, Esq. - 2214 Hon. Robert Stewart - 3100 Majority for the Earl of Hillsborough against Mr. Stewart - 415 gross poll 6445 hasty sketch of what passed the fifteenth and sixteenth instant, upon the Hustings. ...
Date: 1790]- Books
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The companion to the play-house: or, an historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary, For the more readily turning to any particular Author, or Performance. In Two Volumes. ... Contains, A Critical and Historical Account of every Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, &c. in the English Language. The respective Merits of each Piece; and of the Actors who performed the principal Characters, are particularly examined and pointed out. ... Contains, The Lives and Productions of every Dramatic Writer for the English or Irish Theatres, including not only all those Memoirs that have been formerly writeen, but also a great Number of new Lives and curious Anecdotes never before communicated to the Public. - Also the Lives of our most celebrated Actors, who were likewise Authors of any Theatrical Composition from Shakespear and Johnson, down to the present Times.
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767.Date: 1764- Books
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An accurate and impartial narrative of the war, by an officer of the Guards. In two volumes. Containing the second edition of A poetical sketch of the campaign of 1793, revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged, ... also a similar sketch of the campaign of 1794; to which is added, a narrative of the retreat of 1795, ...
Officer of the Guards.Date: [1795?]- Books
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The last night. to the Lovers of Novelty, Whim, and Humour. At the Theatre in Grantham, on Saturday Evening, September 25th. 1790, will be presented, the Humourous entertainment of As you like it: Or, A Whimsical, Pleasant, and Laughable, Exhibition of the World as it Goes, By Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, &c. &c. From the Royalty Theatre, London; but last from Gloucester, Cheltenham, Worcester, Hereford, Nottingham, &c. where it has been received with universal Approbation and Applause. Consisting of Music, Recitations, Imitations, Emblems, and Caricatures, Original, Moral, Political, and Satirical. Part I. Dramatic Sketches; Or, a Theatrical Brush, for rubbing off the rust of care, And Smoothing the Wrinkled Brow of Melancholy. In which will be introduced the various Abuses of the Sock and Buskin, in merry Tragedies and sad Comedies, by Modern Spouters-Stage Candidates-Butchers in Heroics-Tragedy Ranters-Readers without their Eyes-Ghosts without their Lessons-Boglers and Blunderers-With Theatrical Shifts, &c. &c. The first Part to conclude with the Bust of Shakespeare, and the favourite Song of ̀̀the Seven Ages, or Stage Play of Human Life,'' by Mr. Hudson. Part II. The Whim of the Times: Or, such things are. In which will be introduced a cabinet of trifles, and descanted upon with Wit, Humour and Sentiment. The second Part to conclude with the Bust of that brave Roman General Belisarius and the universally admired Song of ̀̀date obulum Belisario,'' by Mr Hudson. Part III. A dish of small talk; Or, a Humourous description of a rout, &c. &c. By Mrs. Hudson. After which ̀̀the Parting Kiss'' a favourite new Song (never in Print) By Mr. Hudson. Part IV. Mrs. Hudson will Draw The Pictures of the Audience, From the Box, Pit and Gallery, in such a stile that the Outlines shall not offend, or the Colouring afford a Shadow of disgust. To conclude with an Address to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Grantham by way of Epilogue. - After which, The Triumph of Liberty, or the Destruction of the Bastile, a favourite Ballad, by Mr. Hudson. And for the Entertainment of Younger Minds, as well Amusement for those Ladies and Gentlemen, &c. who had not an opportunity of seeing the original in London. - The whole will conclude with a new and grand Spectacle, in commemoration of the King's happy Recovery, in which will be introduced a compleat and exact Representation of the Royal Procession to St. Paul's, On St. George's Day, (by moving Figures) as it passed on between Temple-Bar, and Ludgate-Hill. And performed in London last Summer, upwards of One Hundred and Thirty Nights. The Scenery, Machinery, and Decorations entirely new, and executed in the most masterly Stile, by two of the first Artists in London. - To close with ̀̀god save the King.'' Tickets to be had at the Printing-Office, and of Mr. Hudson, at Mr. Thelwells', in High-Street. Boxes 2s. - Pit 1s. - Gallery 6d. - Doors to be opened at Six, and to begin at Seven O'Clock. Young Ladies and Gentlemen under Fifteen, Half Price in the Boxes. The Exhibition was received again on Thursday Evening by a numerous and polite Audience, with universal Approbation and Applause.
Hudson, Mr.Date: 1790]- Books
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The school-Master and scholar's mutual assistant: or, a compendious system of practical arithmetic, made perfectly easy. Containing All the useful Rules in Whole Numbers and Fractions, both Vulgar and Decimal. Together with The Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. And Mensuration of Artificers Work of all Kinds, and of square and Round Timber. Also, a sketch of Surveying. Several of the Questions are left blank, on Purpose to be varied at Pleasure, which will be found of singular Service to Teachers, as well as assiduous Pupils. - The Whole being laid down in the most plain and intelligible Manner, in order to render the Science as little difficult as may be, and as easy to be attained as possible by the Youth of either Sex. By William Banson, Writing-Master and Accountant.
Banson, William.Date: 1760- Books
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The new book of martyrs; or Complete Christian martyrology. Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, Papists, and others. From the earliest ages of the church, to the present period. Including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the martyrdom of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other primitive Christians. The ten great persecutions under the Roman emperors. The persecutions in Persia, under Sapores; and the persecutions under the Arian vandals. - The horrid persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France; the persecutions in Germany and Poland; the cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia; and the martyrdoms in Italy ... A full account of all the English martyrdoms, particularly those in the times of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, wherein are amply displayed all the butcheries, barbarities, tortures, and cruelties, exercised by the Papists against the Protestants, in the reigns of that tyrannical King, and bloody Queen ... The late persecutions in France against the Calas Family, &c. With a sketch of the martyrdom of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world; ... The whole interspersed with accounts of several singular judgments against persecutors, a great variety of original anecdotes, and many curious memoirs; forming, at once, a complete history of persecutions, and a biography of martyrs. ... By the reverend Henry Southwell, LL.D. late of Magdalen College, Cambridge; rector of Asterby in Lincolnshire, and author of the universal family Bible.
Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 1730-1779.Date: [1785?]- Books
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Folly predominant; or, The town taken in. With the palpable deception, and frothy orations, of four public orators, three of which suddenly springing up like mushrooms, must as soon decay: to which is added, a dissertation upon the impossibility of curing lunatics in Bethlem, except with those that would amend of themselves under proper Government in any other Place: And why more Cures are not performed in other Hospitals. - Also, (in Compliment to the Ladies) another upon the Felicity of Matrimony. - Likewise, an humourous and diverting Raree-Show. With the four orators effigies, in folio, sketched from the life, annexed to it. By Peter Billings, M.D. And Sole Professor of the Cure of Lunatics, experimentally, by a new and gentle Method, and in the highest Degree of Madness, proceeding from Pride or Love; Hypocondriacs, or Hysterics, now in London, or in any other Part of the World; who may be heard of at Mr. Mark Noble's, Peruke-Maker, next Door to Mr. John Taylor's, Oculist, in Hatton-Garden.
Billings, Peter.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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By permission of the Right Worshipful the Vice-Chancellor, and the Worshipful the Mayor. At the Town-Hall, on Monday evening, the 25th of June instant, at seven o'clock. Captain S. Villiers has the honour to inform the Nobility and Gentry of the University, and the neighbourhood, that he intends reading the following pieces: Le Barbier de Seville; Or, The Spanish Barber. Interspersed with Songs. A Comedy, in Three Acts, by Beaumarchais. Persons of the Drama. Le Comte Almaviva, Grand d' Espagne. Le Docteur Bartholo. Rosine, sa Pupille. Figaro, Barbier de Seville. Dom Bazile, Maitre de Musique. Un Alguazil. And, By Desire, Quelque Morceaux de la Superbe Tragedie de Merope. - --By Voltaire. The above Readings having been patronized by the Nobility and Gentry before whom he has had the honour of performing-at Bath, by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York-at Oxford and Blenheim-House, by his Grace the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough-at Bristol, Brighton, and several other places, by Persons of the greatest Distinction, induces Captain Villiers to hope that he shall have the happiness of affording satisfaction to those Ladies and Gentlemen who will honour him with their patronage. Tickets, 3s. 6d. cach, to be had of Mr. S. De Villiers, at the Eagle and Child, Bene't Street, and of Mr. Hodson, Printer.
Seignoret de Villiers, Mr.Date: [1798?]- Books
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A safe-Conduct through the territories of the republic of Venus. Containing, a practicable proposal for the prevention and final eradication of a certain disease. Also, occasional anecdotes, (never before published) of the following personages: His-The P-. His Grace the D-of Q-. Late Lord L-. The Man of the People. The Woman of the People. The facetious Mr. C-y. Sir John and Lady L-. Mr. C-, Member for-. Bob the Waiter. The Mad Vicar of B-t. Major H-. Capt. - , while in America. Capt. - and Poll Scott. Late Nan C-. The Rev. Dr. A-. David Hume. Capt. E-d, with his Character, and Sketch of his Life. A great Northern Lady; And several others. By a physician of Bath; author of several political tracts, translations, &c.
Physician of Bath.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The strange and unaccountable life of the penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A miserable miser, Who died in a Sack, though worth upwards of - 3000. per Ann. with singular anecdotes of the famous Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark usurer, a character well known upon the Stock Exchange: to which is added, a true account of Henry Welby, Who lived invisible Forty-Four Years in Grub Street; with a sketch of the life of the Rev. George Harvest; Called the Absent Man; or, Parson and Player.
Date: [1797]- Books
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This day is published, In 37 weekly numbers, at six-pence Each, Or neatly Bound in Calf for 1l. 8s, Shakespeare's Works, With Notes and Illustrations, Embellished with Plates, by the best Artists. A few Copies are printed on Royal Paper, with Two elegant Plates, At One Shilling each. Forming Eight handsome Volumes. N. B. The Poems, being the Ninth Vol. may be had on either Paper, to match. (late Bell's) now Published by J. Barker, at the Dramatic Repository Russell-Court, Drury-Lane. Also, The British Theatre, Containing near 400 Plays, in the same elegant Manner; 60 of the most celebrated form 12 handsome Vols. with 72 fine Plates, neatly bound in Calf, 2l. 0s. in plain Binding, 1l. 16s. Or may be selected and bound as Fancy directs. A Capital Likeness of Mrs. Siddons, price 1s. The Sicilian Romance, or Apparition of the Cliffs, an Opera, by H. Siddons, 1s The Romp, with an elegant Frontispiece of Mrs. Jordan, 1s Double Disguise, with a Frontispiece of Mrs. Crouch, as Emily, 1s Deaf Lover, by Pilon, 1s The Quaker, a Comic Opera, 1s The Fool, a Farce, by Capt. E. Topham, 1s The Apparition, a Musical Romance, in Two Acts, by J. C. Cross, 1s Britain's Glory, or a Trip to Portsmouth, a Musical Entertainment, as performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, 1s Henry IId. or Fall of Rosamond, a Tragedy, by Thomas Hull, Esq. with fine Historical Vignette, 1s 6d Sword of Peace, or a Voyage of Love, a Comedy, 1s 6d As above, the Public, and the Trade, may be supplied with all Dramatic Performances in Print, he having lately purchased Bell's Plays (of the Assignees) in Addition to his former large Collection. - All the New Performances, as they come out, will be constantly added---- The Greatest Variety of early editions.
Barker, J. (James), approximately 1750-approximately 1818.Date: 1795]- Books
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A catalogue of the valuable and choice collection of books, prints, books of prints, sketches, original drawings, portraits, paintings, by the first masters, viz. Trivisani, Zucki, Studio, Leonardo da Vinci, Snyder, Agostina, Cuyp, Canaloli, Guido, Rembrandt, Raphael, Poussin, Salvator Rosa, Worton, Bourbonion, Bergham, &c. Also a large collection of bows and arrows, guns, pistols, swords, spears, daggers, shields or targets, And other Ancient Armour of all Nations. And, coins and medals, engraved copperplates, An eight-barrelled hand organ; With many Curious and uncommonly Scarce Articles, well worth the Attention of the artist, connoisseur, and antiquary. The property of the late David Martin, esquire, portrait painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Which will be sold by auction, viz. the books, and part of the prints, by C. Elliot, and the other articles - by William Bruce, on Monday the 14th of January 1799, And the Twenty following Days, (sundays excepted), at Mr. Martin's house, no. 4. St. James's Square, near the Register-Office, Edinburgh, To begin each Day at Twelve O'Clock Noon. To be viewed Six days preceding the Sale, from Twelve to Three o'clock, the Prints and Coins excepted, which will be seen on the Mornings of the respective Days of Sale. Catalogues to be had at Mr Creech's at the Cross-And of C. Elliot; also of William Bruce, No. 37. North Bridge Street, Edinburgh; likewise of Mr George Nicol and Mr Edwards Booksellers, Pall Mall, London-Price One Shilling-to be allowed to Purchasers, on the Catalogue being returned; which will admit the Bearer during the time of Exhibition and Sale. No Person to be admitted to either View, or Sale, without a Catalogue. No.
Elliot, C., active 1799.Date: 1799]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd