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

Psalms, hymns and anthems

For voice and piano; interlinear words.
Hymns set to music by Smith, Scott, Worgan or other unnamed composers.
Music engraved by Caulfield.
Entirely engraved; title page has coat of arms of the Foundling Hospital of London, England.

• Title: Psalms, hymns and anthems : for the use of the children of the Hospital for the Maintenance of Exposed and Deserted Young Children.
  
• Published: [London : s.n., ca. 1770?]

Catalog Record 

74 770 P974

Acquired February 2018

A catalogue of the superb and elegant household furniture

“To be viewed three days (Sunday excepted) preceding the sale, when catalogues will be delivered …, which may be had on the premises, and of Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, Aldersgate Street.”

• Author: Skinner and Dyke.
  
• Title: A catalogue of the superb and elegant household furniture : fourteen brilliant pier glasses of very large dimensions, magnificent state beds, French cabinets … also capital marble statues … bronzes … prints and drawings … together with the extensive, truly valuable, and well selected library of scarce books in various languages … : late the property of Monsieur de Calonne, which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, on Monday the 13th of May, 1793, and eleven following days … on the premises, the extemity of Picadilly.
  
• Published: [London : Messrs. Skinner and Dyke, 1793]

Catalog Record 

125 Sk628 793

Acquired March 2018

The complete house-keeper, and professed cook

• Author: Smith, Mary, of Newcastle.
  
• Title: The complete house-keeper, and professed cook : calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. : containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts … / by Mary Smith …
  
• Published: Newcastle : Printed by T. Slack, for the author, 1772.

Catalog Record 

655 772Sm

Acquired March 2018