Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 87r Frontispiece, probably from an edition of A Serious and Compassionate Inquiry into the Causes of the Present Neglect and Contempt of the Protestant Religion and Church of England, by John Goodman (17th or 18th c.) Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 90 Engraved section-title for ‘Ceostefne wood or Division of Kesteven’, from A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln (London, 1801–5) Part 1801–5
f. 92r Title-page of Principia philosophiae, by René Descartes (Amsterdam, 1844), including a woodcut device, coloured by hand Part 1644
loose after f. 95 Engraved title-page of The Antiquities of England and Wales, by Francis Grose, Vol. VII, new ed. (London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1797) Part 1797
f. 110r Engraved title-page of Maniere de bien bastir, by Pierre Le Muet (London: Robert Pricke, 1700) Part 1700
loose after f. 110 Engraved title-page of La quatriesme partie de Polexandre, by Marin Le Roy de Gom-berville (Paris, 1637 x 1641) Part 1637 x 1641
f. 114r Engraved title-page of Das Neuwe Testament Teutsch (Frankfurt am Main, 1583) Part 1583
f. 118r Engraved title-page of Coryats Crudities, by Thomas Coryate, ‘reprinted from the edition of 1611’, Vol. I (London, 1776) Part 1776
f. 120r Engraving, probably from The History of the Martyrs, by Ezekiel Blomfield (Bungay: Brightly & Co., 1810) Part 1810
f. 122r Frontispiece of A Treatise against Impurity Part 18th c.
f. 131r Frontispiece of Faramond, ou, L’Histoire de France, by Gauthier de Costes de La Calprenède, Vol. V (Paris, 1664?) Part 1664?
f. 145r Frontispiece of Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices … reform’d by a person of quality and publish’d by George Hickes, 4th ed. or later (1712 or later) Part 1712 or later
f. 147r Title-page of Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis (Edinburgh, 1744), including an engraved device Part 1744
f. 153r Engraved title-page of Miscellaneorum medicinalium decades denae, by Giovanni Battista Cortesi (Messina, 1625) Part 1625
loose after f. 153 Part of the engraved title-page of Vivae imagines partium corporis humani, by Caspar Bauhin (1620) Part 1620
f. 155r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Tragedies (London) Part 1777 or later
f. 160r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Comedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f. 162r Title-page of an edition of Acts of Parliament made between 14 January and 29 March 1544 (London: Thomas Berthelet, 1544) Part 1544
f. 169r Four leaves from a printed catalogue issued by Whittingham and Arliss (c. 1814), containing advertisements for several of their books, including engraved illustrations Part c. 1814
f. 170r Handbill, including an engraved illustration, advertising the publicaiton of the 7th edition of Village Dialogues, by Rowland Hill, on 1 April 1817 Part 1817
f. 173r Handbill, including a coloured engraved illustration, proposing the publication by subscription of An English Dance of Death, by the author of Doctor Syntax’s Tour (William Combe), in monthly parts, with engravings by Thomas Rowlandson, from 1 April 1814 Part 1814
f. 174r Engraved front cover of the Repository of Arts, Literature, and Fashions, etc., new series, No. 11 (London, Feb. 1816) Part Feb. 1816
f. 178r Engraved printer’s device of Jean-Antoine and Samuel de Tournes [Geneva] Part c. 1668
f. 179r Woodcut printer’s device of Laurent Anisson Part 17th c.
f. 179r Woodcut printer’s device of Daniel or Louis Elzevir Part 17th c.
f. 179r Woodcut printer’s device of Sébastien Cramoisy Part 17th c.
f. 181r Engraved device of a Hanover printer Part 17th c.
f. 183r Etched printer’s device of Sebastiaan Petzold Part 1701?
f. 184r Engraved illustration from a book, printed by J. M‘Creery (London) Part early 19th c.
f. 185r Woodcut decorated initial ‘I’ Part 17th c.?