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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1763.

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1. A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added an account of the life and works of the latter ...

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 p. l., 128, 14, 20 p., 4 leaves. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

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Creator:
Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3-1773
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A complete history of English peerage : from the best authorities / by William Guthrie ... ; illustrated with elegant copper-plates of the arms of the nobility, blazoned in the heralds-office, by the proper officers, copper-plates of the premiers in their parliamentary robes ; and at the conclusion of the history of each family, vignets, and other ornaments, proper for the subject.

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Creator:
Guthrie, William, 1708-1770
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.

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Creator:
Highmore, Joseph, 1692-1780
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
xvi, 129, [1] p. diagrs. on 50 fold. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Houshold [sic] furniture in genteel taste for the year 1763 / by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c ; containing upwards of 300 plates ... ; consisting of china, breakfast, side-board ...

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Creator:
Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers, &c
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The origin and progress of letters : an essay, in two parts. The first shewing when, and by whom letters were invented; the formation of the alphabets of various nations; their manner of writing, on what materials, and with what instruments men have written in different ages to the present time. Wherein is considered the great utility of this art with regard to mankind. The second part consists of a compendious account of the most celebrated English penmen, with the titles and characters of the books they have published both from the rolling and letterpress. Interspersed with many interesting particulars by way of notes throughout the first part; and the second is a new species of biography never before attempted in English. The whole collected from undoubted authorities / by W. Massey, master of a boarding school for many years at Wandsworth in Surry.

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Creator:
Massey, W. (William), 1691-1764?
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
iv, 160, [12], 175, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The compleat drawing-master : containing many curious specimens : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, buildings &c. neatly engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of the great masters : wherein the principles of drawing are laid down after a natural and easy manner : to which is prefixed some general instructions to form the judgement of young beginners : by which the useful art can be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1763
Physical Description:
21 p., [102] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts