Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
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
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
21 Documents relating to copyrights of Jacob Tonson and others Item 18th c.
34 Illustrations, etc., collected by Richard Burton for his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah Item 1853–6
43 History of Charles IX, Books I and II, by Antoine Varillas Item late 17th c.?
45 Chapbooks, prints, and cuttings relating to notable criminals Item 1733–95
46 Visiting book of Robert Burns’s cottage Item 1841–5
49 Transcript of the will of King Henry VII, with an engraving Item c. 1750 and 1622
24A ‘Frontispieceana’, Vol. 1: engravings, woodcuts, etc., mainly from books, 16th–19th c. Item 1816
f. 2r Inscription by Valentin Alberti Part 9 Sept. 1691
f. 14r Inscription by Johann Christoph Bielefeld Part 3 Apr. 1709
f. 18r Inscription by Johann Brantz Part c. 1600
f. 25r Inscription by Christoph Kaldenbach Part 13 Sept. 1676
f. 29r Inscription by Benedict Carpzov Part 17 Nov. 1593
f. 30r Inscription by Christian Chemnitz Part 10 Apr. 1654