‘Frontispieceana’, Vol. 2: engravings, woodcuts, etc., mainly from books, 16th–19th c.

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f. 160r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Comedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
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. 178r Engraved printer’s device of Jean-Antoine and Samuel de Tournes [Geneva] Part c. 1668
f. 178r Woodcut printer’s device of Bartolomeo Bonfadino Part c. 1586
f. 181r Engraved device of a Hanover printer Part 17th c.
f. 185r Woodcut decorated initial ‘C’ Part 17th c.?
f. 186r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th–18th c.?
f. 190r Woodcut decorative border Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 190r Engraved printer’s ornament from Ordo institutionum physicarum, by Thomas Rutherforth (1756) Part 1756
f. 192r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 194r Woodcut printer’s ornament or device Part 17th c.?
f. 195r Woodcut printers’ ornaments Part 17th c.?
f. 197r Woodcut printers’ ornaments Part 17th c.?
loose after f. 199 Two woodcut printers’ ornaments from Eloges historiques des evesques et archevesques de Paris (1698) Part 1698
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