Showing 94850 results

‘In veritate, quæ Jesu Christi est, iniquitus omnis vincitur.’ Dated at Erfurt.

(Engraved by Étienne Baudet from a painting by Louis Licherie.)

(Engraved by Charles Grignion from a drawing by Michael Angelo Rooker. Subscribed ‘Stay, light foot Iris! for thou striv’st in vain; | My wings are nimbler than thy feet.’)

(Below the device is printed ‘Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet Street. | Incorporated by Charter of Queen Anne, | 1706, for the Insurance of Lives.’)

(A female angel and a swan in front of a pyramid surrounded by trees. The angel is writing on the pyramid the words ‘Greece’, ‘Rome’, and ‘Great Brit[ain]’. Engraved by James Heath from a drawing by F. Burney.)

(Engraved by Scott from a drawing by Thomas Kirk. Engraving published 14 Jan. 1797.)

(At the centre is an open book, with a dagger and a sceptre crossed on it, surrounded by the motto ‘Doctrina parit virtutem’. A similar ornament appears in A History of the Late Warres, by Count Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato (1648), p. 191.)

(At the centre is a helmet on a plinth, surrounded by birds or bees.)

(At the centre is a ship in full sail, with buildings and rocks to one side.)

(The ornament is from sig. A2r. Below it are three lines of a printed dedication.)

(Below the ornament are five lines of a printed dedication.)

(An old man in chair, with a bundle of faggots at his feet, attended by five other people.)

Notes of information received from citizens on the suspicious activities of Chouans in Lisieux, Martin de Mailloc, and Marolles.

(Headed ‘Notes et Renseignements’. Certified as a true copy by Pierre-Jean Lévêque.)

(i) A assigns to B (equally) the copyright in (the first volume of) The Old and New Testament Connected for a consideration of £43, half of which is not to be paid till it is printed. A also assigns to B to copyrights of ‘The Validity of the Orders of the Church Of England’, ‘The Award of King Charles the First’, ‘Directions for Church Wardens’, and ‘the Life of Mahomet’, all by Humphrey Prideaux. A second volume of The Old and New Testament Connected is now being written, and A promises to let B have the copyright in this for the same price as the first volume, in proportion to the number of sheets. Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Glenister and Thomas Edeline.

(iv) is signed by Thomas Warkhouse, W. Rolfe, and Edmund Locke, the examiners, (v) by Edward Northey.

The sketch is captioned above ‘Illustrations of the Greek Drama | No. III.’, and below ‘He-di-pus! Tyrannus!’

Cf. the sketches on ff. 17v and 18r.

The sketch is captioned ‘Illustrations of the Greek Drama. No II | πότερα δ’ἂν, εἰ νέμοι τις αἳρεσιν, λάβοις; | Soph. Aj. 265’. The man on the left, who is in rustic dress and appears to be holding a fishing-rod, is saying: ‘Thankee kindly 3 penn‘orth o‘ rum sir’; the man on the right, who is wearing an apron and smoking a long clay pipe, is probably the innkeeper. The sign of the inn is a rampant lion and the inscription over the door is ‘JOHN SMITH. LICENSED | BEER. ALE AND[?] SPIRITS’.

Cf. the sketches on ff. 17v and 18v.