Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 137r Inscription by Elias Veiel Part 9 Apr. 1690
f. 138r Inscription by Campegius Vitringa the elder Part 7 Sept. 1711
f. 142r Inscription by Immanuel Weber Part 3 Apr. 1709
f. 149r Inscription by Johannes Wolleb Part 7 Oct. 1628
f. 1r Draft of a deed of bargain and sale from D. M. (probably Daniel Midwinter), citizen and stationer of London, to Jacob Tonson II Part 18th c.
f. 17 Memorandums of agreement between (A) Jacob Tonson III and Richard Tonson and (B) Robert Dodsley, regarding Charles Jervas’s translation of Don Quixote Part 1 May 1740
f. 18 Assignment from Thomas Worrall to Henry Lintot of copyrights in various books, and copies of books Part 30 June 1738
ff. 21–5 Copy of an agreement between (A) John Dryden and (B) Jacob Tonson for Dryden’s translation of Virgil, 15 June 1694 Part 18th c.
f. 30r Receipts from Giles Jacob to Bernard Lintot Part 1719–1720
f. 39 Acknowledgement by Henry Lintot Part 6 June 1744
ff. 2–28 Leaves from The History of the Misfortunes of John Calas, a Victim to Fanaticism, to which is added a Letter from M. Calas to his Wife and Children, ‘written by M. De Voltaire’ (Edinburgh: P. Williamson) Part 1776
f. 2r Print captioned ‘Vortigern King of Britain espouses Rowena a Saxon Lady, which occasioned the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain’ Part 1758?
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. 7r Engraved title-page of Contemplationum physicarum sectiones tres, by Marcus Friedrich Wendelin (Cambridge, 1648) Part 1648
f. 13r Frontispiece of Les Lettres de Mr de Voiture, Vol. II Part 18th c.
f. 16r Engraved title-page of A Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, by Anthony Sparrow (1657 or later) Part 1657 or later
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. 31r Title-page of Des Hoochverlichten D. Johannis Tauleri van eenen volcomen Evangelisschen leven Christelijcke Predicatien oft Sermonen op allen Sondaghen ende Feestdagen vanden gantsen Jaer (Amsterdam, 1565), including a woodcut device Part 1565
f. 32r Frontispiece of one of the volumes of ‘Cooke’s Pocket Edition of Select British Poets’ (London, 1794 x 1804) Part 1794 x 1804
f. 35r Frontispiece of an unidentified work, Vol. I (Bungay: C. Brightly, 1809) Part 1809
f. 36r Engraved title-page of Bellamy’s Picturesque Magazine and Literary Museum, Vol. I (London, 1793) Part 1793
f. 38r Title-page of The Infidel and Christian Philosophers, or, The Last Hours of Voltaire and Addison Contrasted: A Poem, by the editor of the Hull Advertiser (Isaac Wilson) (Kingston-upon-Hull, 1802) Part 1802
f. 39r Title-page of Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo aluntur, by Hermann Boerhaave, Vol. II (Leiden, 1727), including an engraved device Part 1727
f. 40r Engraved title-page of Medical and Chirurgical Observations as an Appendix to a former Publication, by Benjamin Gooch (London, 1773) Part 1773
f. 50r Section-title of Book II of Paradise Regained, by John Milton (London: James Cundee, 1806) Part 1806
loose after f. 50 Fragment of an engraving Part 18th c.?
f. 55r Frontispiece from a volume of The Virtuoso’s Companion and Coin Collector’s Guide, by M. Denton and T. Prattent (8 vols.; London, 1795–7) Part 1796 x 1797