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Or The sports and pastimes of the people of England; including the rural and domestic recreations May-games mummeries pageants processions and pompous spectacles from the earliest period to the present time; illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings; in which are represented most of the popular diversions

an history of plants and trees natives of Britain cultivated for use or raised for beauty

a chapter in English printing

in which their interests and duties as daughters wards heiresses spinsters sisters wives widows mothers legatees executrixes &c are ascertained and enumerated also the obligations of parent and child and the condition of minors The whole laid down according to the principles of the common and statue law explained by the practice of the courts of law and equity and describing the nature and extent of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction In which are inserted a great variety of curious and important decisions in the different law courts and the substance of the trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston on an indictment for bigamy before the House of peers April 1776 In four books

an illustrated chronicle of fifty years of the reign of Her Majesty the Queen From the contemporary pages of "Punch" with a prologue (1837-1841)

being a chronological digest of the most interesting facts illustrative of the history of literature and printing from the earliest period to the present time Interspersed with biographical sketches of eminent booksellers printers type-founders engravers bookbinders and paper makers of all ages and countries but especially of Great Britain With bibliographical and descriptive accounts of their principal productions Including curious particulars of the first introduction of printing into various countries and of the books then printed A history of all the newspapers periodicals and almanacks published in this country Compiled and condensed from Nichols's Literary anecdotes and numerous other authorities

being an historical account of printing in England with some memoirs of our antient printers and a register of the books printed by them from the year MCCCCLXXI to the year MDC With an appendix concerning printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time

a comparative survey of the craft of printing 1851-1951

including an account of the origin of printing with biographical notices of the printers of England from Caxton to the close of the sixteenth century a series of ancient and modern alphabets and Domesday characters together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art

in which the coast of Asia from the lat of 35⁰ north to the lat of 52⁰ north the island of the Insu (commonly known under the name of the land of Jesso) the north south and east coasts of Japan the Lieuchieux and the adjacent isles as well as the coast of Corea have been examined and surveyed Performed in His Majesty's sloop Providence and her tender in the years 1795 1796 1797 1798

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