Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 31 Account of the costs of printing a new edition of William Cowper’s Myotomia Reformata in folio Part 17 Jan. 1724
f. 32 Account of Mr (William?) Bowyer with Robert Knaplock, Jacob Tonson I, and William Innys regarding the delivery of copies of ‘Newtons Myotomia’ [Sir Isaac Newton’s revision of Cowper’s Myotomia Reformata] Part 1723–5
f. 33r Promissory note from (A) Jacob Tonson II to (B) Temple Stanyan Part 13 Apr. 1715
f. 37 Assignment from (A) Temple Stanyan to (B) Jacob and Richard Tonson of the copyrights of books by Stanyan Part 17 Apr. 1739
f. 38 Account of the costs of printing Parnell’s Poems Part 18th c.
inside back cover Leaf from the Cornhill Magazine, containing part of an article by Henry H. Wood entitled ‘Jottings from the Note-Book of an Undeveloped Collector’ Part Oct. 1867
22 ‘L’Ecole du monde’: an allegorical comedy in one act, by Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon Item c. 1739
f. 30 Petition by Donat Calas to the King in Council Part 7 July 1762
24A ‘Frontispieceana’, Vol. 1: engravings, woodcuts, etc., mainly from books, 16th–19th c. Item 1816
24B ‘Frontispieceana’, Vol. 2: engravings, woodcuts, etc., mainly from books, 16th–19th c. Item 1819
f. iii r Title: ‘Frontispieceana | OR A COLLECTION OF | ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECES | TITLE-PAGES, &c. &c. | EXTRACTED FROM VARIOUS WORKS | Ancient and Modern | COMMON AND UNCOMMON | now furtively consolidated into a | 2nd Vol. | FRONTI NULLA FIDES. | NO TRVSTING A TITLE-PAGE. | MDCCCXIX.’ Part
f. 6r Frontispiece of Oeuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremond, Vol. IV Part 18th c.
f. 10r Engraved title-page of The Britannic Magazine, or, Entertaining Repository of Heroic Adventures and Memorable Exploits, Vol. III (London, 1796) Part 1796
f. 11r Engraved title-page of Thesaurus pharmaceuticus sive tractatus practicus, by Arnold Weickard (Frankfurt am Main, 1626) Part 1626
f. 15r Engraved title-page of A Collection of the Works of … Thomas Jackson, D.D. (London, 1653) Part 1653
f. 25r Engraved title-page of The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or, Interesting Sketches of Animal History, by Thomas Smith, Vol. II (London, 1806) Part 1806
f. 37r Frontispiece of one of the volumes of Histoire de l’admirable Don Quixotte de la Manche, by Cervantes, translated by Filleau de Saint Martin (4 vols.; Amsterdam, 1681) Part 1681
f. 45r Title-page of Κλήμεντος Ἀλεξανδρέως τα εὑρισκόμενα: Clementis Alexandrini opera Graece et Latine quae extant, edited by Daniel Heinsius (Paris, 1629), including an elaborate woodcut device Part 1629
f. 48r Title-page of The Theatrical Recorder, by Thomas Holcroft, No. 1 (London, 1805), including an engraved illustration Part 1805
f. 53r Frontispiece of the Book of Common Prayer (Bath: R. Paddock, 1792) Part 1792
f. 54r Engraved title-page of De Dis Syris syntagmata II, by John Selden, editio novissima (Leipzig, 1672) Part 1672
f. 62r Engraved title-page of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan, with notes by William Mason (c. 1810) Part c. 1810
f. 64r Engraved title-page of The Succession of Colonels to all His Majesties’ Land Forces, from their rise to 1744 (London, 1744) Part 1744
f. 66r Engraved title-page of True Religion Explained and Defended (a translation, by Francis Coventry, of Hugo Grotius’ De veritate religionis christianae) (London, 1632) Part 1632
f. 67r Engraved title-page of Poole’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Polite Assistant and Useful Remembrancer for the Year 1815 (London, 1814) Part 1814
f. 67r Print captioned ‘Wisdom Teaching Man to Count The rapid progress of Time’, probably from Poole’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Polite Assistant and Useful Remembrancer for the Year 1815 (1814) Part 1814
f. 69r Engraved title-page of Sharpe’s British Theatre, Vol. IV (London, 1804) Part 1804
f. 81r Engraved title-page of Officina pharmaceutica, seu, Antidotarium dogmaticarum vetus, by Jean de Renou (Paris, 1608) Part 1608
f. 84r Engraved title-page of Opera omnia medica et anatomica, by Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (Utrecht, 1685) Part 1685
f. 85r Title-page of Ηρωικα Ομηρου Ιλιας, Homeri Ilias, ed. Franciscus Portus, postrema editio (M. Berjon, 1621), including a woodcut border Part 1621