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It deals with the raw materials, their preparation, manufacturing process and the dyes as well as the styles of hats. The plates, re-engraved for this Spanish edition are detailed depictions of the hatter’s craft with excellent workshop scenes. Like his French counterpart Nollet, Suárez y Nuñez was an enlightened polymath dedicated to the scientific exposition of crafts and industry. His magnum opus was the multi-volume Memorias instructivas, y curiosas: sobre agricultura, comercio, industria, economia, chyimica, botanica, historia natural, &c (1778-1791) translated from pioneering works published across Europe. see full details...
This is an interesting group of association copies and letters from his family collection: the most significant among them being the first edition of Trilby (1894) by his friend and colleague, George Du Maurier. The three volumes contain significant, candid and often critical annotation by Burnand: 'So far, end of vol 1 a novel without a story' [in pencil to final blank of vol. 1]; 'This is slang Americanism'; 'I remember how he sketched all these characters in Punch, years ago….' Additionally, Burnand has preserved in the volumes of Trilby four letters to him by Du Maurier, two of which contain small ink sketches in characteristic style: one a self-portrait, the other depicting famous Punch contributors: Du Maurier himself, John Tenniel, Burnard, Harry Furniss, Linley Sambourne and Charles Keene. The volumes were evidently passed to Burnand's second daughter Margaret Mary, who preserved them along with the other copies of her father's books, at her house in Ramsgate. see full details...
It enjoyed many editions, ‘even becoming a textbook in colonial American colleges’ (Oxford DNB). Johnson’s contributions are the long Preface to volume I and ‘The Vision of Theodore the Hermit of Teneriffe, found in his Cell’ (II, 516–26), a piece which, by Johnson’s own admission, was ‘the best thing he ever wrote’ (Boswell, Life, I, 192). In this copy, the plate featuring six nudes (‘Drawing No. 9’) has been removed and the numbering of the subsequent four Drawings discreetly altered to avoid suspicion. This was evidently done at an early date. One wonders whether the Archbishop had it removed for reasons of propriety. see full details...
While General Hoche’s fleet had been defeated by the weather in January 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte took up the cause later that year, writing to Talleyrand that France ‘must destroy the English monarchy, or expect itself to be destroyed by these intriguing and enterprising islanders... Let us concentrate all our efforts on the navy and annihilate England. That done, Europe is at our feet.’ Frightened gossip and hearsay dominated conversation throughout the South East and created a ready market for scaremongering broadsides such as this. It was widely believed that the French were constructing some form of barge to bring troops to England, and several contemporary broadsides exist claiming to depict it. This vast, if entirely improbable, wind-powered platform thought to be lurking somewhere in the Channel is described in the letterpress text beneath: ‘This Machine is flat; 2,100 Feet long, and 1,500 Feet broad; has 500 Cannon round it, of 36 and 48 pounders; at each end is two Wind Mills, which turns Wheels in the Water at every point of the Wind to Navigate; in the middle is a Fort enclosing Mortars, Perriers, &c. It carries 60,000 Men, Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery.’ see full details...
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