‘DEO et Publico.’ Dated at Halle.
(Engraved from a drawing by Metz. The name of the engraver is indistinct. The illustration is captioned ‘Divine History, attended by Moses (who points to Glory & Salvation), supported by the Emblems of the Four Evangelists, & guided by Truth. In the back Ground is the destruction of Idolatry; also the Nativity, Baptism, & Crucifixion of Christ.’)
Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Qui quotidie moritur, non moritur, quando moritur.’ Dated at Wittenberg. (ii) ‘Qui DEUM habet propitium, felicitatis tenet fastigium!’ Dated at Leipzig. Addressed to Balthasar Friedrich Saltzmann.
(The title and publication details are typeset within spaces in the engraving.)
(Engraved by Michael van der Gucht. The 4th edition appears to have been the first to include this frontispiece.)
Text in Hebrew (Isaiah, xxviii. 29). Dated at Jena. Numbered 403.
‘Sein Rath ist wunderbarlich, und führet es herlich hinaus.’ (Isaiah, xxviii. 29.) Dated at Jena.
(Engraved by James Heath from a drawing by Thomas Stothard. Engraving published 27 Aug. 1782.)
‘Si nobis est testis in coelo, si in corde, dimittamus alios loqui foris, quod volunt.’ ‘Non pendebit Christus semper inter Latrones, resurget aliquando crucifixa Veritas.’ ‘Ich laß die Welt sein Welt, verlasse ihren Shein | Du aber höochster Geld, vernügst mich allein.’(??) Motto: ‘Tandem Veronenses sunt acceptiores Placentinis.’
(Engraving published Aug. 1807. The illustration is captioned ‘Hervey in the Flower Garden’. Brightly’s name is misspelled ‘Brighily’.)
‘Tu, ne cede malis, sed contra audientior ito!’ (Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 95.) ‘Symbol. Deus pro nobis; quis contra nos?’ Dated at Giessen. Addressed to (Elias) Silberrad. Numbered 45(?).
‘Christianorum est, præsentia superare | futura sperare.’ (Cf. J. F. Putters, Selbsbiographie (1798), i. 66.) Dated at Jena.
Message only. Dated at Jena. Addressed to Johann Pfaehler of Strasbourg. Sealed at the foot.
Published October 1741 by T. Cooper at the Globe, Paternoster Row. Subscribed with verses beginning ‘Who see my Raree Shew, come from Prague’.
(Extract from a report dated 13 Floréal, an 4:) The amnesty proclaimed by General Louis Lazare Hoche has encouraged many Chouans to surrender. Chouans have stolen four horses from Gaumont, agent municipale at Noron.
(Extract from a report dated 22 Floréal, an 4:) Another one hundred Chouans have surrendered. Their leader has been revealed as Alexis de Garo. An assembly of four or five hundred bandits has been reported near Briouze.
(Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)
First words: ‘Our desires have different names …’ On the mount is written ‘This is not Gray’s. The Original is on the same leaf which contains the Fragment of the IVth Book. “De Principiis Cogitandi”.’
(Headed ‘No. 10107.’)
(No caption or other information.)
It is agreed that an impression of 1500 copies of Shuckford’s ‘Treatise on the Fall of Man’ be forthwith printed, with the same sort of letter (i.e. type) and paper as his ‘Connection of Sacred and Prophane History’, and that B shall pay A £50 as a consideration provided there is sufficient quantity of copy to make at least twenty-six sheets, ‘which will be a five Shilling volume when bound to Gentlemen’, or £40 if there is only enough copy for a 4s. volume. All future editions are reserved to A.
'This peculiar form expresses the position... in which a Cohen (a descendant of Aaron the Arch-Priest) holds his hands when proclaiming the sacerdotal benediction....'
Drawn and etched by T. [probably Thomas Fryer] Ranson, London. The portrait is a version of those on ff. 11r and 12r.
(This faces the title-page in the original volume.)
A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Roof of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. 3404. G.W.W.’
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.
A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Dining Hall, Old Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. 3447. G.W.W.’ The image also includes the fountain and part of the Master’s Lodge.
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.