Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 93r Title-page of Renati Descartes Epistolae … Pars Prima (London, 1668), including a woodcut illustration Part 1668
f. 95r Frontispiece of The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, by Jeremy Taylor (1651 or later) Part 1651 or later
loose after f. 97 Engraved title-page of Algemeine Welthistorie, Vol. XIII (Halle, 1753) Part 1753
loose after f. 106 Engraved title-page of Historiarum ab excessu Caroli V Caesaris … libri II, by Pier van Winsem (Leeuwarden, 1629) Part 1629
f. 109r Engraved title-page of The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. (London: Richard Evans, 1814) Part 1814
loose after f. 111 Frontispiece of All the Talents!, by Polypus (London, 1807) Part 1807
f. 115r Frontispiece of an unidentified work Part 18th c.
loose after f. 115 Title-page of La quatriesme partie de Polexandre, by Marin Le Roy de Gomberville, derniere edition (Paris, 1641) Part 1641
f. 117r Engraved title-page of Poetae minores Graeci, ed. Ralph Winterton (Cambridge, 1635) Part 1635
f. 119r Engraved title-page of The Holy State, by Thomas Fuller, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1648) Part 1648
f. 125r Frontispiece of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan (Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, c. 1804) Part c. 1804
f. 127r Title-page of Introductio ad veram physicam, by John Keill (Oxford, 1705), including an engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre Part 1705
f. 134r Title-page of Sacrarum exercitationum ad Novum Testamentum libri XX, by Daniel Heinsius (Cambridge, 1640), including a woodcut device and woodcut borders Part 1640
f. 137r Frontispiece of a ‘magazine’, perhaps The New Universal Magazine (1751–5) Part 1751–5
f. 140r Frontispiece of an unidentified book, captioned ‘Learning, Arts, & Commerce flourishing in time of War under the Auspice of the Genius of London’ Part 18th c.
f. 144r Frontispiece of The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, Vol. VII (Edinburgh: Bell, 1782) Part 1782
f. 158r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Tragedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f. 163r Title-page of an edition of Acts of Parliament made between 25 January and 30 March 1535 (Lon-don: Thomas Berthelet, 1535) Part 1535
f. 165r Broadside entitled By the King: A Proclamation for the better ordering of those who repayre to the Court for their cure of the disease called the Kings Evill (London, 1626), including a woodcut coat of arms and a woodcut initial Part 1626
f. 167r Handbill advertising the publication on 1 September of the August 1817 number of the Edinburgh Magazine (‘a new series of the Scots Magazine’) [Edinburgh] Part 1817
loose after f. 167 Engraved title-page(?) from Bell’s edition of The Plays of Shakspere (London, 1786 or later) Part 1786 or later
f. 176r Woodcut arms of Charles I, perhaps from a printed proclamation Part 17th c.
f. 177r Woodcut printer’s device Part 17th c.?
f. 177r Engraved printer’s device of Sébastien Cramoisy (Paris) Part c. 1631
f. 178r Woodcut printer’s device of Bartolomeo Bonfadino Part c. 1586
f. 180r Woodcut printer’s device of a member of the Cloquemin family (Lyon) Part 17th c.
f. 181r Engraved device of a Hanover printer Part 17th c.
f. 182r Engraved printer’s device of François le Cointe Part 17th c.
f. 183r Engraved printer’s device of Henricus Laurentius (Hendrick Laurensz) Part 1644
f. 185r Engraved decorated initial ‘D’ Part 18th c.