Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Extensive and Most Valuable Collection of Engraved Portraits, of the Most Illustrious and Other Eminent British Characters that Figure in the Annals of History and Biography, ... as Originally Collected by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford; which Will be Sold at Auction, by Mr. George Robins, at His Great Rooms in Covent Garden, on Monday the 13th Day of June, 1842, and Nine Following Days ...
Author: Horace WalpoleGrove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: George GroveGrove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: Sir George GrovePublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County
Author: Sussex Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Burlington Magazine
Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Monasticon Anglicanum : A History Of The Abbies And Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, And Cathedral And Collegiate Churches, With Their Dependencies, In England and Wales
Author: Methodus Theologiae Christianae
Author: Richard BaxterPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 588533398X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Peter Stent, London Printseller
Author: Alexander V. GlobePublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841419
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
From the 15th century on, engravings influenced European culture almost as profoundly as books. Like stained glass windows in the Middle Ages or television today, popular prints were designed to reach even the lowest orders of society. In the 17th century, Peter Stent, whose shop stood outside Newgate, was England's most prolific seller of popular prints, maps, and copybooks to the working and rising middle classes. His inventory of copper plates reflected the shifts of popular tastes during this period and commented directly on the turbulent events of the day. In documenting Stent's output, Alexander Globe studied the printsellers' advertising catalogues as external controls for reconstructing inventories as well as indices to contemporary tastes. From these and other contemporary sources, Globe cites every engraving and book attributable to Stent, breaking down the material into types: portraits, maps, miscellaneous sheets, and books (including works on handwriting, politics, natural history, anatomy, costume, and architecture). References and additions are made to the catalogues of Donald Wing and A.M. Hind. Globe takes the history of engraving beyond Hind by including prints from the Commonwealth, Protectorate, and early Restoration periods. Eight appendices supplement the catalogue information. They provide evidence for print identificiation, discuss paper sizes, and list Stent's artists, suppliers, and business associates. All the collectiions in which Stent items may be found are named. The volume concludes with a bibliography and indices of subject as well as post-17th century authors. Globe's introduction to Stent's work is concerned with the social, political, and economic conditions leading to the emergence of a popular printseller who catered to a different clientele from that usually studied by art historians. Stent's career illustrates the mid-17th century commercial revolution which saw the artisan's customers change from the wealthy leisure class to the worker who wanted mass-produced cheap goods. Drawing on material in a hundred libraries and museums around the world, the catalogue describes over fifteen hundred engravings, including 319 sheets and five books of portraits, 42 maps, 102 miscellaneous prints and sets (with religious, classical, heeraldic, and satirical subjects), and 86 books (on handwriting, politics, military training, natural history, figure sketches, costume, architecture, and ornament). Richly illustrated with 319 plates, Peter Stent will prove valuable not only to print dealers, art historians, museums, and libraries, but also to social, cultural, and political historians.
Domesday Book and the Law
Author: Robin FlemingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Domesday Book contains a great many things, including the most comprehensive, varied, and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the common law. This book argues that it can - and should - be read as a legal text. When the statistical information present in the great survey is stripped away, there is much material still left, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony given by jurors impanelled in 1086, or from the sworn statements of lords and their men. This information, read in context, can provide a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the formation of English law. The volume provides translations (with Latin legal terminology included parenthetically) for all of Domesday Book's legal references, each numbered and organised by county, fee, and folio.
Thesaurus Syriacus
Author: R. Payne SmithPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556355734
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The study of languages forms the foundation of any study of ancient societies. While we are dependent upon archaeology to unearth pottery, tools, buildings, and graves, it is through reading the documentary evidence that we learn the nuances of each culture--from receipts and letters to myths and legends. And the access to those documents comes only through the basic work of deciphering scripts, conjugating verbs, untangling syntax, and mastering vocabulary. Ancient Language Resources brings together some of the most significant reference works for the study of ancient languages, including grammars, dictionaries, and related materials. While most of the volumes will be reprints of classic works, we also intend to include new publications. The linguistic circle is widely drawn, encompassing Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hattic, Hittite (Nesite), Hurrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Arabic, Greek, Coptic, Latin, Mandaean, Armenian, and Gothic. It is the hope of the publishers that this will continue to encourage study of the ancient languages and keep the work of groundbreaking scholars accessible. --K. C. Hanson Series Editor