The fair in an uproar

With a large woodcut below the title and preceding the letterpress text: Madamoiselle Javellot is shown on stage flanked on either side by chandeliers wtih her performing dogs in costumes in front and a musician in the background, left, behind the curtain.

• Title: The fair in an uproar, or, The dancing-doggs : as they perform in Mr. Pinkeman’s new opera in Bartholomew Fair.
  
• Published: London : Printed and sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall, [1707?]

Catalog Record

707.00.00.01

Acquired September 2018

A series of prints taken from the New Testament

Intended to accompany Sarah Trimmer’s ‘A description of a set of prints taken from the New Testament’.

• Author: Trimmer, Sarah, 1741-1810.
  
• Title: A series of prints taken from the New Testament, designed as ornaments for those apartments in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.
  
• Published: London : Printed and sold by John Marshall, No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane, and No. 17, Queen Street, Cheapside, [1790?]

Catalog Record

722 790T

Acquired October 2018

Les sérails de Londres

• Uniform Title: [Nocturnal revels. French]
  
• Title: Les sérails de Londres, ou, Les amusemens nocturnes, contenant les scènes qui y sont journellement représentées, les portraits et la description des courtisannes les plus célèbres, et les caractères de ceux qui les fréquentent / traduit de l’Anglais.
  
• Publication: A Paris : Chez Barba, Libraire, Palais Egalité, derriére le Théâtre de la République, no. 51, an. IX (1801)

Catalog Record 

646 801 Se522

Acquired November 2018

Epitre a M. de Walpole

• Title: Epitre a M. de Walpole : traduite de l’anglois.
  
• Publication: [Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1740]

Catalog Record 

763 740 Ep64

Acquired September 2018

Mum : a political ballad for the present times

A satire on Walpole and the Whigs.

• Author: Leslie, Charles, active 1738-1743.
• Title: Mum : a political ballad for the present times : with annotations political, critical, and historical.
• Published: Edinburgh : Printed, and sold by the book-sellers in town, MDCCXL [1740]

Catalog Record 

763 740 L56

Acquired October 2018

Historical anecdotes of some of the Howard family

Extra-illustrated copy with eight engravings on ten inserted sheets. A list of the additions written in Morris’s hand(?): The Strawberry Hill copy illustrated with the following engravings: Portrait of Horace Walpole … Henry VIII .. Facsimiles of the signatures of Henry VIII & Edward VI. Portrait of Princess Mary, Marie Stuart reine d’Ecosse, décapitée … Arms of Thomas Holland … Thomas Mowbray .. Portrait of John Howard … Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey … Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

• Author: Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1720-1786, author.
  
• Title: Historical anecdotes of some of the Howard family / by the Honourable Charles Howard, Esq.
  
• Publication: London : Printed by G. Scott, for J. Robson, bookseller to the Princess Dowager of Wales in New Bond Street, MDCCLXIX [1769]

Catalog Record 

53 N763 769 Copy 2

Acquired November 2018

Articles for a cock match

An engraved broadside with a vignette of a cock match at the top.

• Title: Articles for a cock match [graphic].
  
• Publication: London : Printed and sold by Reginald Heber, publisher of the List of Horse Races, Henry Bennet Junr. and Harwen Martin, [1750s]

Catalog record 

750.00.00.88+

Acquired September 2018

A memorial for the present age

• Title: A memorial for the present age, and information to posterity, of the loyalty, patriotic zeal, and spirited exertions of the citizens of Bristol: being an account of the cause, rise, progress, and military improvement of the volunteers of the said city. With a correct list of the names of officers, and every soldier of the cavalry and infantry.
  
• Published: Bristol : Printed by W. Matthews, 1797.

Catalog Record 

64 B77 797

Acquired February 2018

The art of cuckoldom

A spoof?

• Title: The art of cuckoldom : exemplified in the history of Don Fernando. A Spanish tale. With curious and interesting notes / translated by T. Dutton, Esq.
  
• Publication: London : Printed for the translator; and sold by D. Brewman, No. 18, Little New Street, Shoe Lane, 1794.

Catalog Record 

53 D95 794

Acquired April 2018

Sei Duetti … Dedicati a … la … Marchesana di Rockingamme

• Creator: Giardini, Felice, 1716-1796.
  
• Title: Sei Duetti … Dedicati a … la … Marchesana di Rockingamme.
  
• Created: [London], [1762]

Catalog Record

74 762 Se457

Acquired April 2018