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[Collection of published articles tracking the racing career of William Clift, English jockey, from 1803 to 1826]
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Ledger is comprised of four ms. sections which document the horse races, jockeys and race horse owners at Newmarket during the jockey William Clift's career, which ran from ca. 1778 to 1826. The first section is titled "Summary of races at Newmarket from 1701 to 1778"; second section: "Clift's owners from 1779 to 1803"; third section: "Jockeys 1804 to 1830". The fourth section is 5 ms. pages which briefly describe Wiliam Clift's racing career until 1803, followed by 4 pages listing the number of mounts ridden by Clift for F. Poole, Christopher Wilson, the Duke of Grafton, and Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Milton, covering the years 1788 to 1826.
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Vol. I. 1762-1810. Covers Clift's birth, early racing career through his first big wins in 1810, mostly with his trainer Robert Robson. Contains a chronological biography, and many materials about racecourses, jockeys, horses, trainers and other people involved in horse racing both at Newmarket and other places. Materials include: two portraits of William Clift, printed notices of race meetings, engraved caricatures, maps and plans of race courses, newspaper and magazine clippings from The sporting magazine, Baily's magazine, Picks and Weatherby's Racing calendars, Orton's Turf annals of York & Doncaster, prints, engravings, newspaper clippings, woodblock prints, notices of horse auctions, letters, printed music, and several photographs. The last 15 pages contain a mss. list of highlights of Clift's early career and an index to the contents of the volume.
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Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last collection of sports and leisure prints and ephemera contains about 1,770 printed materials related to the history and advertising of athletics, recreational activities, pyrotechnics, gambling, and games in the United States. The materials date from approximately 1758 to approximately 1938, although the bulk of the items date from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. The collection consists of about 67 large-sized items, and over 1,000 smaller-sized items, including paper dolls, playing cards, trade cards, puzzle cards, dime novels, and promotional billheads and letterheads. Images on the materials range from scenes of indoor pastimes such as billiard and board games, to outdoor sports and activities like roller skating and horse racing. Some materials also include advertisements for fireworks and other pyrotechnic products, largely promoted for Fourth of July celebrations. The collection also consists of many broadsides announcing lottery and charity drawings that took place in Delaware, Maryland, Louisiana, Wyoming, Kansas, and other parts of the United States. Many of the drawings were organized by reputed swindlers at the time, like J.M. (James Monroe) Pattee and L.D. Sine. Some of the drawings organized by the Louisiana State Lottery Company were also officiated by former Confederate generals G. T. (Gustave Toutant) Beauregard and Jubal Anderson Early. In addition to sport materials, this collection also consists of items relating to toys and novelties. Items range from paper cut-out templates, to playing cards, holiday toy listings by retailers, and toy advertisements by manufacturers such as the Milton Bradley Company and the McLoughlin Bros. A significant portion of this collection includes paper dolls with fashion accessories, published either as promotional product advertisements by companies, as art supplements by newspapers, or as toys retailed to consumers.
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Manuscripts
This collection contains correspondence, documents, engravings, and ephemera of the Westall brothers assembled at the Huntington Library. The papers consist of 38 letters, one bound manuscript volume, and one folder of ephemera. Included are the correspondence of William and Richard Westall, a bound volume of Richard Westall's illustrations, and printed pieces and photograph reproductions of various and paintings and illustrations. The incoming correspondence of William Westall includes letters from Sir John Carr, William Bernard Cooke, and others. 18 letters are signed "W. Stevens, Sedbergh, Westmoreland, England." There are six letters by Richard Westwall, written between 1811 and 1836, including two letters addressed to his brother. Also included is a statement of account for Richard Westall (1829). Also included is a letter by James William Inman to a "M. Parrington." (1811). The collection also contains a the bound manuscript volume titled Westall's Illustrations of Bryon's Works, with Suitable Extras, and a Brief Memoir, with 31 printed illustrative plates drawn by Richard Westall and engraved by various artists.
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Bound scrapbook containing clippings and offprints of Esdaile's published writings, chiefly from The Architect, Burlington Magazine, and Country Life, as well as some articles by others. Includes: "Meditations Among the Tombs" (review of English Monumental Sculpture) (pp. 121-122 in Country Life, January 28, 1928) "Bubb" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 33-44 in Art Work Spring 1929) "New Light on a Neglected Century of British Sculpture" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 241-246 in Discovery, 1922) "The Limits of Architecture" (pp. 165-166 in The Architect, September 8, 1922) "Wilkes by Roubiliac: A Bust Given to the Corporation of London" (pp. 1041-1042 in The Illustrated London News, June 8, 1935) "New Light on Hubert Le Sueur" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 177-184 in Burlington Magazine, 1934) "Royal Academy of Arts: Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, January-March, 1938" (leaflet) "English Statuary at the Antwerp Exhibition" (pp. 653-654 in The Architect & Building News, May 23, 1930) "The Decline of the Mason-Architect in England" by Douglas Knoop and G.P. Jones (pp. 1-4 in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, August 14, 1937) "Correspondence: References to Sculptors in Wren Society's Volume XI" (pp. 556-558 in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, March 9, 1935) "Correspondence: Wren Society, Volume XI" (pp. 611-612 in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, March 23, 1935) "The Story of Regent Street" by Charles G. Harper (pp. 64-66 in The Architect, January 23, 1925) "Caius Gabriel Cibber" [review] (pp. 331-332 in The Architect & Building News, September 17, 1926) "The Newark Papers" (typescript, Sept-Oct 1940) "Some Eighteenth Century Works on Architecture-II" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 567-570 in The Architect & Building News, November 12, 1926) "Harefield Church and its Monuments-II: a lecture delivered at Gerrards Cross on November 9, 1925, by Mrs. Esdaile" (pp. 403-404 in The Architect, December 4, 1925) "Harefield Church and its Monuments: a lecture delivered at Gerrards Cross on November 9, 1925, by Mrs. Esdaile" (pp. 385-388 in The Architect, November 27, 1925) "The Symbolism of Death in England-1440-1780" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 272-273 in The Architect, October 16, 1925) "Paintings at the Royal Academy by Philistine" (pp. 1-8 in The Architect & Building News, May 7, 1926) "Roubiliac (1695-1762)" (pp. 1079-1082 in The Saturday Review, November 23, 1918) "Why St. Paul's is Empty" (pp. 89-90 in The Architect, August 10, 1923) "Sir. John Vanbrugh: A Critical Note" by A. Trystan Edwards (pp. 253-262 in The Architect & Building News, March 26, 1926) "Lord Chesterfield on Chelsea China" by K.A. Esdaile (p. 458 in Country Life, September 20, 1924) "A Re-Discovered Portrait of Michelangelo at Goldsborough Hall" by Tancred Borenius (pp. 434-335 in Country Life, September 20, 1924) "Wentworth Woodhouse - I. Yorkshire. A Seat of Earl Fitzwilliam" by H. Avray Tipping (pp. 436-444 in Country Life, September 20, 1924) "Shorter Notices: Cousin to Pepys and Dryden : a note on the works of Mrs. Elizabeth Creed of Tichmarsh" by K.A. Esdaile (pp. 24-28 in the Burlington Magazine, 1940) "Garden Sculpture by Caius Cibber" by Lady Victoria Manners (pp. 382-383 in Country Life, September 27, 1930) pp. 149-150 of The Architect & Building News, May 11, 1934 "At the Theatre: A Light View of First Principles" (pp. 681-682 in Country Life, May 10, 1930) "The Howard Tombs at Framlingham" by Lady Victoria Manners (pp. 948-950 in Country Life, June 29, 1929) "The Universities of Oxford & Cambridge: The Radcliffe Observatory Oxford" (pp. 674-680 in Country Life, May 10, 1930) "The Universities of Oxford & Cambridge: II.- The Pepys Library" (pp. 300-308 in Country Life, March 3, 1928) "The Building of St. Paul's--II" by H. Avray Tipping (pp. 262-265 in Country Life, February 25, 1928) "The Universities of Oxford & Cambridge: Magdalene College, Cambridge --I" (pp. 266-276 in Country Life, February 25, 1928) "A Georgian Sculptor Discovered: II. Charles Stanley (1703-61) in Denmark" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 608-611 in Country Life, December 11, 1937) "A Georgian Sculptor Discovered: I. Charles Stanley (1703-1761) and his English Colleagues" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 348-354 in Country Life, October 2, 1937) "The Reverend William Hanbury of Church Langton, Gardener, Educationist, and Visionary" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 562-564 in Country Life, December 3, 1938) "The Musical Glasses" (pp. 606-607 in Country Life, June 11, 1938) "The Actual Face of King Charles I" (p. 991 in The Illustrated London News, "December 3, 1927) "The Recumbent Effigy in English Sculpture" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 17-19 in an unidentified German-language periodical, December 1928) "The Albert Hall, 1871-1931" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 439-441 in The Architect & Building News, March 27, 1931) "Battles Royal: The Foreign Office: Some Great Architectural Controversies of the Past" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 45-47 in The Architect & Building News, January 13, 1933) "A Little-Known Sculptor" (pp. 276 in The Architect & Building News, February 26, 1932) "Battles Royal: The Foreign Office: Some Great Architectural Controversies of the Past" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 47-49 in The Architect & Building News, January 8, 1933) "The Prince of Wales Returns from Spain, 1623" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 222-224 in The Connoisseur, 1934) "A Note on the Portrait of Lady Hamilton…" (pp. 183-184 in The Connoisseur, 1929) "London Leaded Steeples. --III" by Lawrence Weaver (pp. 89-97 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "Coade Stone" by Katharine Esdaile (pp. 112-114 in The Architect & Building News, January 26, 1940) "Coade Stone" by Katharine Esdaile (pp. 94-96 in The Architect & Building News, January 19, 1940) "Croome D'Abitot Church" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 387-392 in The Architect & Building News, June 29, 1934) "Country Notes" (pp. 349-350 in Country Life, March 16, 1929) "A New Portrait of Dr. Johnson" by Augustine Birrell (pp. 267-269 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "Some Portraits in Relief Here Attributed to Christian Van Vianen" by K.A. Esdaile and "Recent Research" (pp. 22-34 in the Burlington Magazine, January 1940) "Bacon's George III, the River Thames at his feet, at Somerset House" by K.A. Esdaile (p. 168 in the Burlington Magazine, 1939) "A Seventeenth-Century Model of an English Monument" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 195-202 in the Burlington Magazine, 1929) "A Recovered Masterpiece by Roubiliac" by Katharine A. Esdaile (p. 136-140 in the Burlington Magazine, 1925) "Notes on Various Works of Art" [includes "A Bust of Sir William Hamilton by Michael Foye (fl. 1764-77)" by Katharine A. Esdaile] (pp. 81-88 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "Notes on Various Works of Art" [includes "Michael Foye" by Katharine A. Esdaile] (pp. 237-238 in the Burlington Magazine, 192-) "Some Eighteenth Century Literary Allusions to Chelsea China" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 4-20 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "On Contorniates" by Katharine Esdaile (pp. 90-100 in the Burlington Magazine, 1909?) "The Early English School of Portraiture" by William A. Shaw (pp. 172-184 in the Burlington Magazine, October 1934) "A Statuette of William III at South Kensington" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 123-124 in the Burlington Magazine, April 1940, with a corrected proof laid in) "Notes on Various Works of Art: Bernini, Rysbrack and Roubiliac" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 93-98 in the Burlington Magazine, February 1924 with handwritten notes laid in) "Roubiliac and Rysbrack" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 197-199 in the Burlington Magazine, April 1923?) "Theory, or The Graphic Muse engraved by Blake after Reynolds" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 113-115 in the Burlington Magazine, 1904) [Unidentified fragment of article with photo captioned "4.--Truth Supporting Colt's Monument of Lord Salisbury at Hatfield Hertfordshire"]
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Four volume set. Comprised of 2 volumes of miscellaneous 19th-century pamphlets on the subject of printing and 2 volumes of excerpts and clippings from encyclopedias and other reference sources on the same topic. Volumes 1-2 have spine title: Miuscellaneous 19th-century pamphlets; Volumes 3 has spine title: Encyclopaedias - 19th century and volume 4 has spine title: Printing. Encyclopaedia Londoniensis. 1826.
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