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. 33r Promissory note from (A) Jacob Tonson II to (B) Temple Stanyan Part 13 Apr. 1715
f. 35 Assignment from Temple Stanyan to Jacob Tonson II of the copyright in the first volume of Stanyan’s Grecian History (1707) Part 29 May 1714
f. 36 Assignment from (A) Giles Jacob to (B) Bernard Linton of the copyrights of several books by Jacob Part 29 Apr. 1719
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
f. 1 Ink drawing captioned ‘La Malheureuse Famille Calas. La Mere, les deux Filles, ave Jeanne Viguiene, leur bonne Servante, le Fils et son Ami Lavayse.’ Part 18th c.?
f. 30 Petition by Donat Calas to the King in Council Part 7 July 1762
ff. 31–2 Testimonial by Donat Calas on behalf of his father Jean Calas Part 5 July 1762
f. 1r Engraved title-page of The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life, by Jeremy Taylor (London, 1657) Part 1657
f. 4r Engraved title-page of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan (London: Richard Evans, 1812) Part 1812
f. 5r Engraved title-page of Opera philosophica, by René Descartes, 4th ed. (Amsterdam, 1664) Part 1664
f. 12r Frontispiece of The Horseman’s Sure Guide and Complete Horse Doctor (c. 1780) Part c. 1780
f. 13r Frontispiece of Les Lettres de Mr de Voiture, Vol. II Part 18th c.
f. 13v Printed explanation of the title-page on f. 14r, in verse, headed ‘The Frontispiece Explained’ Part 1633
f. 15r Engraved title-page of A Collection of the Works of … Thomas Jackson, D.D. (London, 1653) Part 1653
f. 18r Engraved title-page of D’Edelste Verlustiging der Leer-en Lees-Gierige Gemoederen, by Simon de Vries (Amsterdam, 1681) Part 1681
f. 24r Frontispiece of Telluris theoria sacra, by Thomas Burnet (1681 or later) Part 1681 or later
f. 28r Engraved title-page of Lettres de Ninon de l’Enclos au Marquis de Sevigné, Vol. I (Amsterdam, 1752) Part 1752
f. 29r Title-page of Spicilegium anatomicum, by Theodor Kerckring (Amsterdam, 1670), including an engraved illustration Part 1670
f. 32r Engraved title-page of The Pocket Print Magazine, or, Select Views of Cities, Sea-Ports, Towns, and Villages (London, 1795) Part 1795
f. 35v Letterpress title-page of Bellamy’s Picturesque Magazine and Literary Museum, Vol. I (London) Part 1793
**B**, pp. 19–71 ‘L’Ether, ou l’Être Suprême Élementaire; Poeme Philozophike et Moral, à Priori. En Cinq Chants’, by Martin De Bussy Part
**B**, pp. 79–88 ‘Constance ou Courage dans le Malheur’: an account of the death of Socrates, adapted from Les Exemples célèbres by Henri Lemaire Part
**B**, pp. 96a–b Note on the importance of a woman’s reputation Part
**B**, p. 102 ‘Diskour sur l’Ode’ Part
**B**, pp. 103–13 Extracts from Examen de l’Homme des Champs Part
**B**, pp. 123–8 ‘Letre 2e. Le Kabaliste Abukibak, ò studieû ben Kiber’: Letter CXXIV of the Marquis d’Argens’ Lettres cabalistiques Part
6 Prose pieces in the hand of Thomas Gray Item 18th c.
9 ‘Berryana’: papers relating to Mary and Agnes Berry Item c. 1845–66
11 Papers relating to a loan opened by the French Directory to finance an invasion of England Item 1798–9