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

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f. 157r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Tragedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f, 159r Engraved title-page of a volume of Bell’s British Theatre: Comedies (London, 1776 or later) Part 1776 or later
f. 171r Handbill, including an engraved illustration, advertising the publication of new editions of J. S. Barr’s translation of Buffon’s Natural History, etc. Part 1807
f. 172r Handbill, including an engraved illustration, advertising The Temple of Flora, A New Edition of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, and The Philosophy of Botany, by Robert John Thornton, with a proposal to publish the same in monthly numbers from 1 July 1809 Part 1809
f. 175r Engraved title-page of La Belle Assemblée, being Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine, new series, Vol. VIII (London, 1813) Part 1813
f. 176r Section of the engraved title-page of an almanac for 1815 Part probably 1814
f. 185r Engraved printer’s device Part 17th c.
f. 185r Engraved printer’s device Part 17th c.
f. 188r Two woodcut printer’s ornaments from William Camden’s Annales (1625) Part 1625
f. 189r Woodcut printer’s ornament from Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea, by John Quincy, 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th ed. (1733 x 1749) Part 1733 x 1749
f. 189r Engraved dedication from Stowe: A Description of the Magnificent House and Gardens of the … Earl Temple Part 1760s?
f. 190r Engraved illustration from a book Part 18th c.?
f. 190r Engraved printer’s ornament from Ordo institutionum physicarum, by Thomas Rutherforth (1756) Part 1756
f. 194r Woodcut decorated initials and other printers’ ornaments Part 17th or 18th c.
f. 194r Woodcut printer’s ornament or device Part 17th c.?
f. 196r Engraved title-page of Aesop’s Fables (London: T. Heptinstall, 1797) Part 1797
f. 198r Engraved illustration from an edition of The Masque, by Beaumont and Fletcher Part 18th c.
f. 198r Engraved illustration, probably from the frontispiece of a book Part 18th c.
loose after f. 199 Two woodcut printers’ ornaments from Eloges historiques des evesques et archevesques de Paris (1698) Part 1698
f. 1r Engraved title-page of The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life, by Jeremy Taylor (London, 1657) Part 1657
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. 12r Frontispiece of The Horseman’s Sure Guide and Complete Horse Doctor (c. 1780) Part c. 1780
f. 13r Frontispiece of Les Lettres de Mr de Voiture, Vol. II Part 18th c.
f. 13v Printed explanation of the title-page on f. 14r, in verse, headed ‘The Frontispiece Explained’ Part 1633
f. 15r Engraved title-page of A Collection of the Works of … Thomas Jackson, D.D. (London, 1653) Part 1653
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. 29r Title-page of Spicilegium anatomicum, by Theodor Kerckring (Amsterdam, 1670), including an engraved illustration Part 1670