Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 104r Frontispiece of The Compleat Housewife, by Eliza Smith, 14th or 15th ed. (London, 1750 or 1753) Part 1750 or 1753
loose after f. 111 Frontispiece of The Freemason’s Magazine (1793?) Part 1793?
loose after f. 112 Engraved title-page of La troisiesme partie de Polexandre, by Marin Le Roy de Gomberville (Paris, 1637) Part 1637
f. 124r Frontispiece of an unidentified book (Bungay: C. Brightly and (T.) Kennersly, c. 1810) Part c. 1810
f. 128v Title-page of A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705, 10th ed. (1720?) Part 1720?
f. 130r Engraved royal coat of arms Part 17th c.?
f. 133r Engraved illustration from an unidentified book Part 18th c.?
f. 135r Engraved title-page of Euclidis elementa geometrica, novo ordine ac methodo fere demonstrata (London, 1666) Part 1666
f. 136r Frontispiece of The Universal Letter-Writer, by Thomas Cooke (London, 1770?) Part 1770?
f. 138r Engraved title-page of Opera omnia, by John Forbes (Amsterdam, 1703) Part 1703
f. 139r Title-page of Μικροκοσμογραφια: A Description of the Body of Man, by Helkiah Crooks (London, 1616), including two woodcut illustrations Part 1616
f. 150r Frontispiece of A Treatise of Antient and Present Geography, by Edward Wells, 3rd or 4th ed. (London, 1717 or 1726) Part 1717 or 1726
f. 151r Engraved title-page of the London Magazine, Vol. XLVIII (London, 1779) Part 1779
f. 152r Title-page of The Sinner Impleaded in his own Court, by Thomas Pierce, 3rd ed. (London, 1670), including an engraved device Part 1670
f. 161r Frontispiece of the New Universal Magazine (London, 1788) Part 1788
f. 164r Broadside entitled By the King: A Proclamation forbidding any resort to His Majesties Court for cure of the Kinges-Evill untill Easter next (London, 1634) Part 1634
f. 166r Broadside entitled By the King: A Proclamation appointing the time when His Majesties subjects may approach to the Court for cure of the disease called the Kings Evill (London, 1634), including a woodcut coat of arms and a woodcut initial Part 1634
f. 182r Engraved printer’s device of Henricus Wetstenius or Wetstein Part late 17th or early 18th c.
f. 185r Woodcut decorated initial ‘C’ Part 17th c.?
f. 188r Woodcut printer’s device Part 17th c.
3 Draft petition of Charles Griffin to the House of Commons against Lord Leigh Item 1849
7 Chapbooks, prints, and other papers relating to Lord George Gordon Item 1780-93
15 Notarial instruments relating to Charlotte de Beaune Item early 17th c.
18 Transactions of the Philobiblon Society Item 1863–76
20 Inscriptions from alba amicorum Item 1582–1751
24B ‘Frontispieceana’, Vol. 2: engravings, woodcuts, etc., mainly from books, 16th–19th c. Item 1819
27 Warrants for payment authorised by the 1st Marquess of Winchester Item 1562–8
30 Account of the imprisonment of Philipp Camerarius and Peter Rieterus, with copies of related papers Item c. 1740
33 Memoirs of Benjamin Starkey Item 1811–25
37 Poems of the time of Charles II, Part II Item 1680s