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Autograph of Bolton? Wansell on last leaf.
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Laid in: Dr. Thompsons and Mr. Bassets Letters to Mr. Dodwell concerning the Essay for Catholick Peace. Manuscript on paper, 8 l., circa 1709.
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Layout: single columns of roughly 40 lines.
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Script: English secretary hand.
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Binding: parchment over pasteboards.
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Ownership inscription of James West, 1732, on recto initial blank parchment leaf.
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Detailed provenance history of manuscript in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on verso of initial blank parchment leaf.
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Layout: single columns of 19-23 lines.
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Script: rounded English gothic bookhand.
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Decoration: large initials in blue with red penwork.
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Binding: early eighteenth-century full red morocco, gilt.
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Annotations in red crayon probably by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Layout: single columns of 36 lines.
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Decoration: numerous two-line initials in burnished gold or in blue ink with red penwork.
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Binding: nineteenth-century brown blind-stamped morocco, gilt; armorial binding of the Dukes of Newcastle.
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Layout: double columns of 35 lines.
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Decoration: decorated borders at the beginnings of Books II-IX; numerous gold initials.
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Binding: early nineteenth-century vellum; leather spine labels, gilt.
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Title printed on cover: My Memory Book
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Notebook in thin maroon cloth over boards. Front cover bears the printed label of "The Royal Liberty School, Romford."
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Layout: double columns of 57-60 lines.
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Binding: contemporary white doeskin over wooden boards.
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Several medical recipes added on blank leaves and portions of leaves in a sixteenth-century? cursive hand.
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Signature of John Bowen? in a seventeenth-century hand. Signature of Thomas Bowen in a seventeenth-century hand.
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Layout: various single-column.
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Decoration: 15 illuminated borders; other decorated initials, some gilt.
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Binding: disbound, but with some original sewing intact; modern case.
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Cover title. Printed within decorative border.
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"Elkington & Co. silversmiths : original patentees of the electro plate : art workers in the precious and other metals : London, Liverpool, Manchester : Manufactory, Birmingham."--Back cover.
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Pages 2-3 are blank lined memorandum pages. The top heading is the great seal of the United States with motto: E Pluribus Unum. Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. A.D. 1876. Within decorative border. Silver marks of Elkington & Co. at foot. Printed in brown on cream card.
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Several verses and aphorisms in a sixteenth?-century cursive hand on blank leaves and in margins.
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Layout: single columns of 21-23 lines.
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Decoration: numerous initials in gold or in blue with contrasting penwork.
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Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; remains of clasps.
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Tipped in: astrological chart, on paper, for the years 1646-1664.
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Layout: single columns of 17-25 lines.
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Decoration: some capitals and words rubricated.
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Binding: nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
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The engraved billhead reads: "Bot. of Chrisr. Corrall and Danl. Blachford, gold and silver lacemen, at the Indian Queen, No. 67 Lombard Street."
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Barrington Buggin of Harper Street was a ship broker, and owned warehouses in Fresh Wharf in the City of London.
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Includes traces of wax seal.
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Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding.
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Layout: single columns of 33 lines.
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Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink.
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Binding: modern vellum boards.
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Description of volume, in Latin, signed WA.1804 on recto of front flyleaf.
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Ownership inscription of Jone Ffyn on verso of front flyleaf.
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Calendar contains three notes concerning births and a marriage of Cheyne family members.
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Layout: single columns of 17 lines.
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Script: gothic bookhand.
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Decoration: three historiated initials with full-page borders; one smaller historiated initials and seven large foliate initials with borders. many smaller initals in gold with blue penwork or in blue with red penwork.
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Binding: modern red velvet; red morocco box.
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Title from colophon.
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From colophon: "exemplaire n.III".
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Layout: tables in red and brown ink.
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Decoration: gold initials.
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Binding: modern half-calf.
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Bound with Fifteen Joys of Our Lady.
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Layout: single columns of 20 lines.
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Script: gothic liturgical script.
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Decoration: red and blue penwork.
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Binding: modern full red morocco.
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Season ticket for admission to Crystal Palace, 1855 ("available till 30 April 1856"). No. 21921, signed by Charles Carrington (the ticket holder). All text is engraved, with printing on both sides, the rules of use on the reverse. In contemporary calf wallet, with blue silk lining.
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"This ticket is available till April 1856. It admits the proprietor to the palace and park whenever they are open to the public, but not at other times. The proprietor must sign his name on the face of the ticket before presenting it and also in a book at the door whenever required so to do. The ticket must be shewn whenever he enters the palace and when asked for by the savants of the Crystal Palace Company. If presented by another than the person who signed it it will be forfeited. Ticket lost cannot be replaced. The bearer of this ticket is bound to observe all the rules made from time to time by the directors for the regulation of visitors."--Verso.
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Cover title: "Press Book".
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First gathering of eight leaves missing.
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Layout: single columns of 30 lines.
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Decoration: headings and paragraph marks in red.
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Binding: lower cover of original vellum and original stitching; modern case.
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Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste.
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Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines)
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Script: formal bastard anglicana.
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Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple.
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Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment)
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Layout: single columns of 32 lines.
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Script: written in an English bookhand.
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Decoration: red and blue initials with contrasting penwork.
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Binding: nineteenth-century morocco.
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Support: mixed. 101 paper leaves, 52 parchment leaves.
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Layout: double columns of 54 lines.
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Script: cursive bookhand.
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Decoration: seven large decorated initials; numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork.
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Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards, rebacked; remains of later hardware. BInder's label on back pastedown: W. H. Woods & Co. / Manchester / 1879.
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All corners repaired, not affecting main text block. Approximately 34 missing leaves; replaced by manuscript copies of the missing text in a modern cursive.
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Decoration: rubricated. Some marginal note initials in blue with red penwork.
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Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco.
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Four leaves preceding the Mandeville text contain numerous pen trials, a Latin prayer, medical advice organized by month, and a list of the archbishops of York. Two leaves following the text contain pen trials and Latin notes on the life of St. Wilfrid?.
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Layout: single columns of 20-23 lines.
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Decoration: decorated border on opening leaf of text incorporating coat of arms of the Norton family of Yorkshire; a few initials in blue ink with red penwork.
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Binding: contemporary light brown doeskin over wooden boards.
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Decoration: some initials, line fillers, underlining, in red ink.
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Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco, gilt.
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The hotel was originally a small hunting lodge built in 1787 by Thomas Johnes, the then squire of The Hafod Mansion Estate, and it was enlarged and converted into a Swiss style chateau in 1839 by the third Duke of Newcastle, and Sir Henry Houghton. It attracted numerous visitors and inspired the Wordsworth poem "To the torrent at Devil's Bridge".
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The invoice features an engraved illustration of Devil's Bridge.
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"This Hotel is erected amidst the wildest and most magnificent scenery, on a precipice contiguous to the Devil's Bridge, commanding a view of the Grand Cataract of the Rhydol, and within hearing of the tumultous Fall of the Mynach. Distance from the Hafod 5 miles ; from the Ruins of Strataflorida Abbey 9 ; from Aberystwith 12 ; from London 199 miles."
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"Height of the Cataracts. From the bridge to the water, 114 feet ; first fall, 18 feet ; second 60 ; third 20, Grand Cataract 110 feet ; total from the bridge to the bed of the river, 322 feet."
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"Visitors may be accommodated with a Guide."
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Caption title from p. [1]: The cook's book, 1748, Mary Stent.
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Several leaves missing at opening.
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Binding: eighteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Red leather spine tag, gilt: Albyon A Monkish History M. S.
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