(A serpent, in a frame, flanked by cherubs, maps and globes, etc. Designed and engraved by François Chauveau.)
A serpent, in a cartouche, flanked by two female figures, one holding a shield and spear, the other a mirror.
(Engraved by I. Wood from a drawing by William Green junior.)
(A man playing a harp in front of a cottage, watched by a man leaning on a stick and three figures on horseback. On the back of the leaf are the concluding lines of ‘Naworth Castle: a Fragment’, by Frederick, Earl of Carlisle.)
)Mercury enthroned on a plinth, attended by a woman, a cherub, and a satyr. The plinth is covered with a carpet inscribed ‘Hermathena’. Engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe. Probably from Historie der Kerken en Ketteren, by ‘Godfried Arnold’ (Christopher Irenaeus), 2 vols., 1701.)
(A man pruning a vine, subscribed with the motto ‘Non odit tamen’. Below the device is the imprint ‘Amstelredami, | Sumptibus Henrici Laurentii Bibliopolæ. | Anno cIↄ Iↄc xliv’, printed partly in capitals. Probably from Operum theologicorum [quatuor tomi], by Caspar Sibelius.)
(A burin being sharpened on a whetstone, within the motto ‘Terar dum prosim’, in capitals, surrounded by two cherubs and two sphinxes. Engraved by Joseph Mulder from a design by B. van Overbeke. Below the device is the imprint, ‘Amstelædami, | Apud Henricum Wetstenium.’, printed in capitals.)
(A woman supporting a crown, with horns of plenty, etc., on either side. Above the device is the imprint, ‘Paris, | [..]mprimerie de François le Cointe | rüe des Sept-Voyes, prés le College de Reims.’, printed partly in capitals.)
(A caduceus held by two hands, below a flying horse, with two horns of plenty in front; the whole within an elaborate frame incorporating various figures.)
(A caduceus held by two hands, below a flying horse, with two horns of plenty in front; the whole within an elaborate frame incorporating figures labelled, in capitals, ‘Fides’, ‘Spes’, ‘Prudentia’, ‘Fortitudo’, ‘Charitas’, ‘Patientia’, ‘Justitia’, and ‘Temperantia’. The design incorporates printer’s marks containing the initials ‘CDAS’. Below the device is printed in capitals ‘Hanoviæ,’ evidently part of the publisher’s imprint.)
(A head breathing on two hands holding a heart, within two mottos: ‘Verbis initur, manibus contrahitur, corde conservatur societas’ and ‘Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ dilabuntur’; the whole within an elaborate frame. Below the device is printed in capitals ‘A Lyon,’ evidently part of the publisher’s imprint.)
The items assigned are as follows: the copyright of ‘The Modern Practice of the Court of Exchequer in Prosecutions relating to his Majesty’s Revenue of the Customs’, with 95 books (lot 12); the copyright of ‘a Vindication of Providence or a True Estimate of Human Life, in which the Passions are Considered in a New Light [etc.]’, by Edward Young, with 820 books (lot 17); the copyright of ‘Friendship in Death [etc.]’, by Elizabeth Singer ‘since Rowe’ (lots 53–6); and the copyright in ‘the Ocean, a Poem’ by Edward Young and ‘a Sermon called, an Apology for Princes’ (lot 60). Consideration, £212 10s. 6d. Witnessed by John Worrall and Francis Gosling.
Caen.—Encloses ff. 19–24.
(Dated 15 Ventôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados. Dugua has noted: ‘j’ai fait usage de ces pièces pendent mon sejour à lisieux du 16 au 18 ventose [6–8 Mar.].’)
A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘St John’s Bridge and College from River, Cambridge. 6071. J.V.’ The photograph includes two men leaning over the bridge and part of the ‘Bridge of Sighs’ in the background.
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.
(Dated ‘Aug= 1750=’, and postmarked 23 Aug. Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’.)
(Engraved by Abraham Blooteling. Cf. f. 29r.)
Numbered 15.
A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Trinity College Bridge, Cambridge. 6637 J.V.’ The photograph includes two men in a rowing boat.
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.
Date of '1842?' suggested in pencil beside the ballad sheet, but the election referred to is that of 1841.
Headed ‘Ad D.D. Gul. Bennettum de Grubbet, Equitem, De Morte D.D. Gul. Scot de Thirlestane, Equestris itidem Ordinis, qui obiît Edini 8vo Octobris M D CCXXV. Jo. Kerrus.’ First line: ‘Mi Bennette, tuus jacet Sodalis’. Followed by detailed notes in Latin.
(A fleur-de-lis, between the letters ‘L A’, in an elaborate frame.)
(Two flying storks, one feeding the other, in a landscape, within an ouroboros.)
(Minerva and an owl, standing either side of an olive tree. Minerva holds a shield bearing the head of Medusa and a banner inscribed ‘Ne extra oleas’. This device appears in Descartes’ Tractatus de homine (1677).)