Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 144r Frontispiece of The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, Vol. VII (Edinburgh: Bell, 1782) Part 1782
f. 150r Frontispiece of A Treatise of Antient and Present Geography, by Edward Wells, 3rd or 4th ed. (London, 1717 or 1726) Part 1717 or 1726
f. 155r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Tragedies (London) Part 1777 or later
f. 157r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Tragedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f. 158r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Tragedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f. 161r Frontispiece of the New Universal Magazine (London, 1788) Part 1788
f. 162r Title-page of an edition of Acts of Parliament made between 14 January and 29 March 1544 (London: Thomas Berthelet, 1544) Part 1544
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. 169r Four leaves from a printed catalogue issued by Whittingham and Arliss (c. 1814), containing advertisements for several of their books, including engraved illustrations Part c. 1814
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. 175r Engraved title-page of La Belle Assemblée, being Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine, new series, Vol. VIII (London, 1813) Part 1813
f. 179r Woodcut printer’s device of Daniel or Louis Elzevir Part 17th c.
f. 182r Engraved printer’s device of Henricus Wetstenius or Wetstein Part late 17th or early 18th c.
f. 183r Engraved printer’s device of Henricus Laurentius (Hendrick Laurensz) Part 1644
f. 183r Etched printer’s device of Sebastiaan Petzold Part 1701?
f. 184r Engraved illustration from a book, printed by J. M‘Creery (London) Part early 19th c.
f. 188r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th–18th c.
f. 188r Two woodcut printer’s ornaments from William Camden’s Annales (1625) Part 1625
f. 190r Engraved illustration from a book Part 18th c.?
f. 191r Woodcut printers’ ornaments Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 192r Woodcut printer’s ornament A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, by William Sanderson (1658) Part 1658
f. 193r Woodcut decorated initials and other printer's ornaments, with decorative initials from medieval manuscripts Part 14th–18th c.?
f. 194r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 198r Woodcut device of the Perpetual Assurance Amicable Society Part 18th c.?
f. 198r Engraved illustration, probably from the frontispiece of a book Part 18th c.
25 Miscellaneous letters and papers Item 1673–c. 1819
No. 5 Letter from Lord Weymouth to Sir Robert Southwell Part 15 Dec. 1688
No. 7 Letter from the Bishop of Derry to the Bishop of Salisbury Part 5 Feb. 1697
No. 8 Memorandum by Thomas Carte, headed ‘Reasons for granting Authors a Privilege for 21 years rather than for 14’ Part 1735
No. 11 Draft of the inscription for Charles Burney’s tomb in Westminster Abbey, by Samuel Parr, with related memoranda Part c. 1819