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

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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. 36r Engraved title-page of Bellamy’s Picturesque Magazine and Literary Museum, Vol. I (London, 1793) Part 1793
f. 37r Frontispiece of one of the volumes of Histoire de l’admirable Don Quixotte de la Manche, by Cervantes, translated by Filleau de Saint Martin (4 vols.; Amsterdam, 1681) Part 1681
f. 42r Engraved title-page of Les Delices de l’Italie, by Alexandre de Rogissart (Leiden, 1706) Part 1706
f. 44r Frontispiece of The Poetical Works of Geoff. Chaucer, Vol. IX (Edinburgh: Bell, 1783) Part 1783
f. 47r Frontispiece of the General Magazine and Impartial Review, Vol. IV (1791) Part 1791
f. 50r Section-title of Book II of Paradise Regained, by John Milton (London: James Cundee, 1806) Part 1806
loose after f. 50 Title-page of A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works relating to English Topography, by William Upcott, Vol. I (London, 1818), including an engraved illustration Part 1818
loose after f. 50 Fragment of an engraving Part 18th c.?
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. 57r Title-page of Formulae oratoriae in usum scholarium concinnatae (a revision of John Clarke’s Transitionum formulae, 1628), 5th ed. (London, 1637), including a woodcut device Part 1637
f. 58r Title-page of De civitate Dei libri XXII, by St Augustine (Jacobus Stoer, 1620), including a woodcut border Part 1620
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. 67r Print captioned ‘Wisdom Teaching Man to Count The rapid progress of Time’, probably from Poole’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Polite Assistant and Useful Remembrancer for the Year 1815 (1814) Part 1814
f. 69r Engraved title-page of Sharpe’s British Theatre, Vol. IV (London, 1804) Part 1804
f. 71r Engraved title-page of one of the volumes of Tacite, by Amelot de la Houssaie (2 vols.; The Hague, 1692) Part 1692
f. 73 Frontispiece of an unidentified book, Part early 19th c.
f. 74r Frontispiece of The Beauties of England and Wales, Vol. VIII, by Edward Wedlake Brayley (London, 1808) Part 1808
f. 75r Title-page of Tomus III: Historia familiarum quae in Troiano et Latinis regnis … imperarunt, by Reinhard Reineck (Basel, 1574), including a woodcut device Part 1574
f. 82r Engraved title-page of The Messiah, by F. G. Klopstock (London, 1813) Part 1813
f. 87r Frontispiece, probably from an edition of A Serious and Compassionate Inquiry into the Causes of the Present Neglect and Contempt of the Protestant Religion and Church of England, by John Goodman (17th or 18th c.) Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 90 Engraved section-title for ‘Ceostefne wood or Division of Kesteven’, from A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln (London, 1801–5) Part 1801–5
f. 92r Title-page of Principia philosophiae, by René Descartes (Amsterdam, 1844), including a woodcut device, coloured by hand Part 1644
loose after f. 95 Engraved title-page of The Antiquities of England and Wales, by Francis Grose, Vol. VII, new ed. (London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1797) Part 1797
f. 110r Engraved title-page of Maniere de bien bastir, by Pierre Le Muet (London: Robert Pricke, 1700) Part 1700
loose after f. 110 Engraved title-page of La quatriesme partie de Polexandre, by Marin Le Roy de Gom-berville (Paris, 1637 x 1641) Part 1637 x 1641
f. 114r Engraved title-page of Das Neuwe Testament Teutsch (Frankfurt am Main, 1583) Part 1583
f. 118r Engraved title-page of Coryats Crudities, by Thomas Coryate, ‘reprinted from the edition of 1611’, Vol. I (London, 1776) Part 1776
f. 120r Engraving, probably from The History of the Martyrs, by Ezekiel Blomfield (Bungay: Brightly & Co., 1810) Part 1810
f. 122r Frontispiece of A Treatise against Impurity Part 18th c.