Crewe Manuscripts

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f. 56 Frontispiece of Cyclopaedia, or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, by Ephraim Chambers, Vol. I (London, 1786 x 1791) Part 1786 x 1791
f. 59r Engraved(?) title-page of Steps of Ascention unto God, or, A Ladder to Heaven, by Edward or John Gee, 23rd ed. (W. Birch, 1677) Part 1677
f. 65r Frontispiece of The Self Interpreting Bible, by John Brown (London: R. Evans, 1814) Part 1814
f. 70 Engraved title-page of The Holy Bible, with a complete commentary entirely selected from the writings of Poole, Henry, Doddridge, Brown, Coke, and other eminent commentators (Manchester: Russell & Allen, early 19th c.) Part early 19th c.
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. 73 Frontispiece of an unidentified book, Part early 19th c.
f. 79r Frontispiece of a volume of The Roman History, by Laurence Echard (London, 1695 x 1719) Part 1695 x 1719
f. 80r Frontispiece for the books of Samuel, presumably from an edition of the Bible (Brightley (sic) & Co., 1814) Part 1814
f. 83r Engraved title-page of The Self Interpreting Bible, with a commentary by John Brown (London: R. Evans, 1814) Part 1814
loose after f. 96 Frontispiece of Telluris theoria sacra, by Thomas Burnet (1681 or later) Part 1681 or later
f. 99r Frontispiece of The Newest and Most Complete Whole Duty of Man, by Matthew Henry Cooke (London, 1773?) Part 1773?
f. 104r Frontispiece of The Compleat Housewife, by Eliza Smith, 14th or 15th ed. (London, 1750 or 1753) Part 1750 or 1753
f. 110r Engraved title-page of Maniere de bien bastir, by Pierre Le Muet (London: Robert Pricke, 1700) Part 1700
f. 123r Engraved illustration from an unidentified book Part 18th c.
f. 138r Engraved title-page of Opera omnia, by John Forbes (Amsterdam, 1703) Part 1703
f. 139r Title-page of Μικροκοσμογραφια: A Description of the Body of Man, by Helkiah Crooks (London, 1616), including two woodcut illustrations Part 1616
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. 142r Frontispiece of The Penitent Pardon’d, by John Goodman, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd ed. (London, 1679, 1683, or 1689) Part 1679, 1683, or 1689
f. 145r Frontispiece of Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices … reform’d by a person of quality and publish’d by George Hickes, 4th ed. or later (1712 or later) Part 1712 or later
f. 147r Title-page of Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis (Edinburgh, 1744), including an engraved device Part 1744
f. 151r Engraved title-page of the London Magazine, Vol. XLVIII (London, 1779) Part 1779
loose after f. 153 Part of the engraved title-page of Vivae imagines partium corporis humani, by Caspar Bauhin (1620) Part 1620
f. 47r Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing a report of the presentation to the House of Peers of the bill found against Lord Ferrers Part 18–20 Mar. 1760
f. 47r Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing a brief report of Lord Ferrers’s journey from the Tower to Westminster Hall Part 15–17 Apr. 1760
f. 49v Cutting from the London Chronicle, containing various items of news, none apparently relating to Lord Ferrers Part 12–14 Feb. 1760
f. 75v Print of Fanny Davies(?) Part 18th c.
f. 111 Print captioned ‘The Mob assembled to pull down the Bawdy-House kept by Peter Wood in the Strand’ Part 1768
ff. 112–27 Leaves from A Circumstantial Account of that Unfortunate Young Lady Miss Bell, otherwise Sharpe, who died at Marylebone on Saturday, October 4 (1761) Part 1761
loose after f. 147 The London Chronicle, containing an account of The Genuine Life of William Cox Part 28–30 Sept. 1773
46 Visiting book of Robert Burns’s cottage Item 1841–5