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... French Classics " and " Whittingham Pocket Novels " -Business relations with Cruikshank and Thompson , Tegg and Murray , Ainsworth and other authors . Separated from his Uncle 1828 . CHAPTER FOURTH Whittingham the Uncle's increasing ...
... French Classics " and " Whittingham Pocket Novels " -Business relations with Cruikshank and Thompson , Tegg and Murray , Ainsworth and other authors . Separated from his Uncle 1828 . CHAPTER FOURTH Whittingham the Uncle's increasing ...
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... French printers - Other borders provided by Eleanor and Charlotte Whittingham and engraved by Mary Byfield . WOODCUTS Woodcuts of the eighteenth century and their defects - Merit of Whittingham's work under the unfavorable conditions ...
... French printers - Other borders provided by Eleanor and Charlotte Whittingham and engraved by Mary Byfield . WOODCUTS Woodcuts of the eighteenth century and their defects - Merit of Whittingham's work under the unfavorable conditions ...
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... French ornaments - The Nephew's ideas as to book - decoration - Continental ideas - Variety and beauty of the Nephew's book - decorations - Simplicity of his schemes . PRESSES Hand - presses in use at Chiswick Press till 1860 - The ...
... French ornaments - The Nephew's ideas as to book - decoration - Continental ideas - Variety and beauty of the Nephew's book - decorations - Simplicity of his schemes . PRESSES Hand - presses in use at Chiswick Press till 1860 - The ...
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... French society purchased his outfit of type , and with it printed Beaumarchais ' superb edition of Voltaire . Now the young Whittingham , who was dili- gently learning his trade at Coventry , must have heard of the strange hazard at ...
... French society purchased his outfit of type , and with it printed Beaumarchais ' superb edition of Voltaire . Now the young Whittingham , who was dili- gently learning his trade at Coventry , must have heard of the strange hazard at ...
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... French gold . " But the " Tomahawk ” was the first victim of the law which it had so clamor- ously supported . It was killed by the stamp duty . Its one hundred and thirteenth number appeared with a heavy mourning border . Yet its death ...
... French gold . " But the " Tomahawk ” was the first victim of the law which it had so clamor- ously supported . It was killed by the stamp duty . Its one hundred and thirteenth number appeared with a heavy mourning border . Yet its death ...
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Page 249 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers. Fishponds, Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by I CHARLES COTTON.
Page 263 - Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance ; to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances ; and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 163 - The mere sight of the little books published by Mr. Cundall — of which some thirty now lie upon my table — is as good as a nosegay. Their actual colours are as brilliant as a bed of tulips, and blaze with emerald, and orange, and cobalt, and gold, and crimson.
Page 262 - We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to give and preferve to our ufe the kindly fruits of the earth, fo as in due time we may enjoy them...
Page 241 - And dreary seem the hours, and lone, That drag themselves along, Now from our board her smile is gone, And from our hearth her song. We miss that farewell laugh of hers, With its light, joyous sound, And the kiss between the balusters, When good-night time comes round. And empty is her little bed, And on her pillow there Must never rest that cherub head With its soft silken hair. But...
Page 138 - Collected and edited, with some account of his life and writings, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, BA Second edition with additions in two volumes.
Page 262 - That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children ; and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 16 - It is surely a particular hardship, that I should not get bread in my own country (and it is too late to go abroad) after having acquired the reputation of excelling in the most useful art known to mankind; while every one who excels as a Player, Fiddler, Dancer, &c. not only lives in affluence, but has it in their power to save a fortune.
Page 15 - I have taken the liberty of sending you a specimen of mine, begun ten years ago at the age of forty-seven; and prosecuted ever since, with the utmost care and attention; on the strongest presumption, that if I could fairly excel in this divine art, it would make my affairs easy, or at least give me Bread. But, alas! in both I was mistaken.
Page 289 - A Handbook of the Art of Illumination, as practised during the Middle Ages.