Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
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f. 23v Cutting from the Wakefield Free Press, containing a short comment on Lord Houghton’s activities in support of the Liberal cause in Yorkshire Part 26 June 1886
f. 24r Cutting from the Bradford Weekly Telegraph, containing a short notice of Lord Houghton’s speech at a meeting Part [1886?]
f. 24r Cuttings from the Leeds Mercury, containing an account of the annual conference of the National Liberal Federation, and of Lord Houghton’s comments in moving the re-election of the president Part 4 Nov. 1886
f. 24v Cuttings from the Yorkshire Post, containing an account of a speech by Lord Houghton [at the annual conference of the National Liberal Federation] Part 4 Nov. 1886
f. 195r Woodcut printer’s ornament from a book printed for the Society of Stationers (1611) Part 1611
f. 197r Engraving, perhaps from a bill, advertising John Raw, printer, bookseller, and stationer of the Butter Market, Ipswich Part c. 1800
f. 198r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th c.?
f. iii r Title: ‘Frontispieceana | OR A COLLECTION OF | ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECES | TITLE-PAGES, &c. &c. | EXTRACTED FROM VARIOUS WORKS | Ancient and Modern | COMMON AND UNCOMMON | now furtively consolidated into a | 2nd Vol. | FRONTI NULLA FIDES. | NO TRVSTING A TITLE-PAGE. | MDCCCXIX.’ Part
f. 3r Engraved title-page of Praxeos medicae opus, by Felix Platter, 3rd ed. (Basel, 1656) Part 1656
f. 7r Engraved title-page of Contemplationum physicarum sectiones tres, by Marcus Friedrich Wendelin (Cambridge, 1648) Part 1648
f. 11r Engraved title-page of Thesaurus pharmaceuticus sive tractatus practicus, by Arnold Weickard (Frankfurt am Main, 1626) Part 1626
f. 14r Engraved title-page of Saturni Ephemerides, by Henry Isaacson (London, 1633) Part 1633
f. 17r Engraved title-page of Spicilegium anatomicum, by Theodor Kerckring (Leiden, 1717) Part 1717
f. 20r Frontispiece of The Lively Oracles Given to Us, or, The Christian’s Birthright and Duty in the Custody and Use of the Holy Scripture, by Richard Allestree (Oxford, 1678 x 1713) Part 1678 x 1713
f. 21r Engraved section-title of A True and Exact Description of the most celebrated East India Coasts of Malabar and Cormandel, as also of the Isle of Ceylon, from A Collection of Voyages, by Philips Baelde, Vol. III (18th c.) Part 18th c.
f. 22r Frontispiece of Nouveaux Voyages de Mr le Baron de Lahontan dans l’Amérique Septentrionale (18th c.) Part 18th c.
f. 30r Engraved title-page of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan (Leeds: Davies and Booth, c. 1810) Part c. 1810
f. 35r Frontispiece of an unidentified work, Vol. I (Bungay: C. Brightly, 1809) Part 1809
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. 43r Frontispiece of The Poetical Works of Geoff. Chaucer, Vol. VIII (Edinburgh: Bell, 1783) Part 1783
f. 45r Title-page of Κλήμεντος Ἀλεξανδρέως τα εὑρισκόμενα: Clementis Alexandrini opera Graece et Latine quae extant, edited by Daniel Heinsius (Paris, 1629), including an elaborate woodcut device Part 1629
f. 53r Frontispiece of the Book of Common Prayer (Bath: R. Paddock, 1792) Part 1792
f. 62r Engraved title-page of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan, with notes by William Mason (c. 1810) Part c. 1810
f. 64r Engraved title-page of The Succession of Colonels to all His Majesties’ Land Forces, from their rise to 1744 (London, 1744) Part 1744
f. 67r Engraved title-page of Poole’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Polite Assistant and Useful Remembrancer for the Year 1815 (London, 1814) Part 1814
f. 68r Engraved title-page of Κειροπλοθεκε, seu … armamentarium chirurgicum, by Johannes Scultetus (The Hague, 1657) Part 1657
f. 72r Title-page of A Narrative of the Military Operations on the Coromandel Coast, by Innes Munro (London, 1789), including an engraved illustration Part 1789
f. 76 Engraved title-page of The Self-Explanatory History and Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by Thomas Brown (London: Richard Evans, 1814) Part 1814
f. 80r Frontispiece for the books of Samuel, presumably from an edition of the Bible (Brightley (sic) & Co., 1814) Part 1814
f. 81r Engraved title-page of Officina pharmaceutica, seu, Antidotarium dogmaticarum vetus, by Jean de Renou (Paris, 1608) Part 1608