Crewe Manuscripts

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Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
f. 143r Frontispiece of Meditations and Contemplations, by James Hervey (Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1807) Part 1807
f. 146r Engraved title-page of L’Astree, by Honoré d’Urfé, quatriesme partie (Paris: Fr. Pomeray, 1624) Part 1624
f. 148 Frontispiece of an unidentified book Part c. 1800
f. 149r Title-page of The Paschal or Lent-Fast, by Peter Gunning (London, 1662), including an engraved device Part 1662
f. 156r Engraved title-page of Introduction à l’histoire, by Samuel Pufendorf (Utrecht, 1703) Part 1703
f. 157r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Tragedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f, 159r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Comedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f. 171r Handbill, including an engraved illustration, advertising the publication of new editions of J. S. Barr’s translation of Buffon’s Natural History, etc. Part 1807
f. 172r Handbill, including an engraved illustration, advertising The Temple of Flora, A New Edition of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, and The Philosophy of Botany, by Robert John Thornton, with a proposal to publish the same in monthly numbers from 1 July 1809 Part 1809
f. 175r Engraved title-page of La Belle Assemblée, being Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine, new series, Vol. VIII (London, 1813) Part 1813
f. 176r Section of the engraved title-page of an almanac for 1815 Part probably 1814
f. 185r Engraved printer’s device Part 17th c.
f. 185r Engraved printer’s device Part 17th c.
f. 188r Two woodcut printer’s ornaments from William Camden’s Annales (1625) Part 1625
f. 189r Woodcut printer’s ornament from Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea, by John Quincy, 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th ed. (1733 x 1749) Part 1733 x 1749
f. 189r Engraved dedication from Stowe: A Description of the Magnificent House and Gardens of the … Earl Temple Part 1760s?
f. 190r Engraved illustration from a book Part 18th c.?
f. 190r Engraved printer’s ornament from Ordo institutionum physicarum, by Thomas Rutherforth (1756) Part 1756
f. 194r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 194r Woodcut printer’s ornament or device Part 17th c.?
f. 196r Engraved title-page of Aesop’s Fables (London: T. Heptinstall, 1797) Part 1797
f. 198r Engraved illustration from an edition of The Masque, by Beaumont and Fletcher Part 18th c.
f. 198r Engraved illustration, probably from the frontispiece of a book Part 18th c.
loose after f. 199 Two woodcut printers’ ornaments from Eloges historiques des evesques et archevesques de Paris (1698) Part 1698
ff. 11–17, 21–7 Transcripts and translations of letters transmitted with the previous item Part 1784?
f. 14 Letter from Jean-Gabriel-Maurice Roques to Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret(?) Part 2 Apr. 1798
f. 15 Letter from Jean-Frédéric Perregaux to Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret Part 19 Jan. 1798
inside the back cover Memorandum Part c. 1850
f. 28 Account headed ‘Etat des Sommes Recues pour le soulagement des Victimes de la Journée du 10 août 1792’ Part c. 1800
ff. 29–33 Accounts headed ‘Depenses à repreter[?] sur les fonds donnés pour les Victimes du 10 Août’, ‘Recettes Pour les Victimes du 10 Août’, ‘Fête du 26 août’, ‘Recette’, and ‘Frontieres’ Part c. 1800