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[Note written by T. Kirgate describing the printing of the following items] [manuscript]

Description: Notes: "The inclosed was printed by me at Strawberry-hill, but the large label, describing the Shrine, was not. That was done at Brentford, there not being enough of such large letter at Strawberry --T. Kirgate"
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [approximately 1750-1801]
Call number: 90524
Creator: Bull, Richard (1725-1806)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from the Lord Burgh sale, Sotheby June 28-29 1926, item 221, received from Maggs Bros., September 17, 1926. With bookplate of Richard Bull.
Dimensions: 31 cm
Associated people: Bull, Richard, (1725-1806,); Walpole, Horace, (1717-1797.); Kirgate, Thomas,

Thomas Kirgate, printer, Strawberry-Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex

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Imprint: [Twickenham : printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill, 1781?] Bibliographic Reference(s): Hazen, A.T. A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, Detached Pieces (Cards of Address), 69; ESTC, N66210 View the Huntington Online Catalog record.

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[Manuscript slip laid in]

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Notes: References 90524:44 "This was printed at Strawberry-hill. By T. Kirgate, for his cousin Mrs. Cloak, as a rebuke to her niece, who was much inclined to reading and scribbling; but as Mrs. Cloak took the above verses from Magazines, she would not pass for the author, and therefore cut our her name."

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Vers, que Louis XV. trouva sous son assiette, en 1751

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Imprint: [Twickenham : printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1780?] Notes: Mounted on page below portrait of T. Kirgate. Manuscript caption reads: "Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press by a Swiss, who knew neither printing nor French." Bibliographic Reference(s): Hazen, A.T. A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, Detached Pieces, 5; ESTC, T220116 View the Huntington Online Catalog record.

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The printing-press at Strawberry-Hill to the Earl of Chesterfield

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Imprint: [Twickenham : printed by Thomas Kirgate?, 1770?] Bibliographic Reference(s): Hazen, A.T. A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, Detached Pieces, 21; ESTC, N66186 View the Huntington Online Catalog record.

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The four pictures near the shrine were doors to the altarpiece of the Abbey of St. Edmundsbury, and represent Humphrey Duke of Gloucester

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Imprint: [Twickenham : printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill, 1780?] Bibliographic Reference(s): Hazen, A.T. A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, Detached Pieces, 31; ESTC, N66190 View the Huntington Online Catalog record.

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Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809. Cockey's New Year's Address

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Imprint: [Twickenham : printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill, 1796] Bibliographic Reference(s): Hazen, A.T. A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, Detached Pieces, 42; ESTC, N66203 View the Huntington Online Catalog record.

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[Note written by T. Kirgate describing the printing of the following items] [manuscript]

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