Author: Sir Thomas PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps Bart. (Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Society of Antiquaries, and of the Linnaean Society), at Middle-Hill
Author: Sir Thomas PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Middle Hill Press
Author: Eric HolzenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private presses
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The first comprehensive checklist of items from the extraordinary private press of the legendary bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps (1819-1872).
The Catalogues of Manuscripts & Printed Books of Sir Thomas Phillipps
Author: Alan Noel Latimer MunbyPublisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Annals Of The Royal Society Club: The Record Of A London Dining-club In The Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries, By Sir Archibald Geikie
Author: Archibald GeikiePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016868099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Welsh Book-plates in the Collection of Sir Evan Davies Jones, Bart., M. P. of Pentower, Fishguard; a Catalogue, With Biographical and Decriptive N
Author: Herbert M. B. VaughanPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018541761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781363876365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Robert Chester's "Loves Martyr, Or, Rosalins Complaint" (1601)
Author: Robert ChesterNelson's Surgeon
Author: Laurence BrocklissPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199287422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805. Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in securing the victory, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory atTrafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, hebecame Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war.The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he wasa prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of thenineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.
Janet Ashbee
Author: Felicity AshbeePublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815607311
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
C. R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ash bee (and his Guild of Handicraft) gained international fame in his own time and remains a legend today. While much has been written about him, little has been said of his wife. Now Felicity Ashbee breaks the silence in a compelling book about her mother. The book depicts Janet Ashbee as a gifted woman of emotional warmth, strength, and unconventionality, all of which enhanced her husband's work. An accomplished writer and thinker in her own right, Janet Ashbee's life revolved around great historic issues that still resonate today: the socially conscious Arts and Crafts movement, the role of women in contemporary affairs, and embattled ethnic relationships in the Middle East-not to mention marriage and sexual orientation, predicated upon her husband's vibrant and well-known homosexuality. A book of rare insight and significance, Janet Ashbee sheds welcome light on the Arts and Crafts movement and on women in oft-romanticized Victorian and Edwardian British culture.