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

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f. 32r Engraved title-page of The Pocket Print Magazine, or, Select Views of Cities, Sea-Ports, Towns, and Villages (London, 1795) Part 1795
f. 35v Letterpress title-page of Bellamy’s Picturesque Magazine and Literary Museum, Vol. I (London) Part 1793
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. 6r Frontispiece of Oeuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremond, Vol. IV 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. 19r Frontispiece of Histoire de la ligue, by Louis Maimbourg (Paris, 1683) Part 1683
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. 33r Engraved title-page of Opticorum libri sex, by François d’Aguilon (Antwerp, 1613) Part 1613
f. 34r Engraved title-page of one of the volumes of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (9 vols.; London: Oddy & Co., 1808) Part 1808
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. 48r Title-page of The Theatrical Recorder, by Thomas Holcroft, No. 1 (London, 1805), including an engraved illustration Part 1805
f. 60r Frontispiece of The Beauties of England and Wales, Vol. X, Part IV (London, 1815) Part 1815
f. 61r Frontispiece of De thermis Britannicis tractatus, by Thomas Guidott (London, 1691) Part 1691
f. 66r Engraved title-page of True Religion Explained and Defended (a translation, by Francis Coventry, of Hugo Grotius’ De veritate religionis christianae) (London, 1632) Part 1632
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. 78r Engraved title-page of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan (London: J. Goodwin, 1811) Part 1811
f. 84r Engraved title-page of Opera omnia medica et anatomica, by Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (Utrecht, 1685) Part 1685
f. 85r Title-page of Ηρωικα Ομηρου Ιλιας, Homeri Ilias, ed. Franciscus Portus, postrema editio (M. Berjon, 1621), including a woodcut border Part 1621
f. 88 Engraved title-page of A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln, engraved by Bartholomew Howlett (London, 1801–5) Part 1801–5
f. 93r Title-page of Renati Descartes Epistolae … Pars Prima (London, 1668), including a woodcut illustration Part 1668
f. 95r Frontispiece of The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, by Jeremy Taylor (1651 or later) Part 1651 or later
loose after f. 97 Engraved title-page of Algemeine Welthistorie, Vol. XIII (Halle, 1753) Part 1753
loose after f. 106 Engraved title-page of Historiarum ab excessu Caroli V Caesaris … libri II, by Pier van Winsem (Leeuwarden, 1629) Part 1629
f. 109r Engraved title-page of The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. (London: Richard Evans, 1814) Part 1814
loose after f. 111 Frontispiece of All the Talents!, by Polypus (London, 1807) Part 1807
f. 115r Frontispiece of an unidentified work Part 18th c.
loose after f. 115 Title-page of La quatriesme partie de Polexandre, by Marin Le Roy de Gomberville, derniere edition (Paris, 1641) Part 1641
f. 117r Engraved title-page of Poetae minores Graeci, ed. Ralph Winterton (Cambridge, 1635) Part 1635
f. 119r Engraved title-page of The Holy State, by Thomas Fuller, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1648) Part 1648
f. 125r Frontispiece of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan (Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, c. 1804) Part c. 1804