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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
How a little boy became Lord Mayor of London
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
ESTC R7243 ; Verse - "Hail loyal sir! who timely did'st provide" ; A Tory poem;The Lord Mayor = Sir John Moore ; A variant of the edition with "for J.H." in imprint
135962
Rare Books
ESTC R5830 ; A song - "Rowze up great monarch" ; A Tory satire;The loyal L. Mayor = Sir William Pritchard ; The words "Gallants, .. done before:" and "see London's .. chair" are bracketed together within title
180172
Visual Materials
"Travel Association Photograph"--text below the image. Logos for the Travel Association on either side of the title. "Published by the Travel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Tourist Division of the British Tourist and Holidays Board) and printed in Great Britain by Bemrose & Sons, Ltd. 50/22/14"--text, small type, margin, bottom edge.
priJHK 00059
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of official copies of plays submitted for licensing between 1737 and 1824. Most of copies were written by professional copyists. Approximately 95 of the plays submitted were printed texts, either whole or partial. These have been cataloged individually and may be searched in the online catalog.
LA 1835
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Manuscripts
This collection contains correspondence from October 1823-1842 from James P. Orde of Edge Hill, commissioning George Perfect Harding, 1780-1853 to copy portraits in various country homes throughout England. Harding, who died in 1853, was known for this particular type of work and also as a miniaturist. Apparently, Orde intended to use the pictures to illustrate a work on John Evelyn.
HM 68045
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Rare Books
"The greatest of all international expositions and world fairs is generally conceded to have been the incredible Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in London. Officially titled The Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, it was held in a gigantic greenhouse-like building that covered almost 20 acres, used almost a million square feet of glass, and taxed the resources of a nation to erect. This was the Crystal Palace, one of the wonders of the 19th century, in which the nations of the civilized world exhibited their achievements in the arts and sciences. Almost as important as the exhibition itself was the Illustrated Catalogue printed by the Art-Journal in 1851. The semi-official record of the exposition and much the best publication about it, it circulated around the civilized world and brought the London of Queen Victoria (with the comparable high achievements of Paris, Berlin, Liège, New York) into the living milieu of countless designers and inventors. Richly illustrated, it displayed an entire universe of design: ceramics, textiles, cast-iron work, domestic furniture, cut glass, decorative hardware, chimneypieces, carpets, pianos, figureheads, lighting fixtures, statuary, terra-cotta work, razors, wall papers, stoves, carriages, weapons, sleighs, billiard tables, clocks, beehives, mosaics, silverware, and hundreds of other artifacts. A text accompanying more than 1500 illustrated items gives the illusion that you are on a walking tour of the Palace itself."--Back cover.
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