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Autograph File, H

Title: Autograph File, H

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear feet (22 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01431/catalog View

Wrangham, Francis, 1769-1842. Roxburgheana : portraits, autograph letters, and views of the homes of early members of the Roxburghe Club / collected by Francis Wrangham, Chester [England], 1838.

Title: Roxburgheana : portraits, autograph letters, and views of the homes of early members of the Roxburghe Club / collected by Francis Wrangham, Chester [England], 1838.

Collection consists of 34 letters received from fellow members of the Roxburghe Club, a private society of bibliophiles in England, concerning society business, meetings and dinners, and publishing activities. With 12 engraved portraits of members (including a mezzotint engraving of Henry Drury by Charles Hodgetts, a lithograph of Stephen Richard Glynne by Charlotte Neville Grenville and a lithograph of Joseph Littledale by Nichols), 4 views (including an etching of the residence of Archdeacon Wrangham in Chester by Musgrove) membership lists, receipts and manuscripts; poems transcribed by Sir Walter Scott, and "Bibliomaniac Ballad" (4 p.), in which Roxburghe Club members are named. Correspondents include William Bentham, William Bolland, Alexander Boswell, James Boswell, Samuel Egerton Brydges, William Holwell Carr, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Henry Drury, Stephen Richard Glynne, George Nugent Grenville, Richard Heber, George Hibbert, George Howard, Joseph Littledale, John Arthur Lloyd, Walter Scott, John Charles Spencer, Richard Thomson, A.J. Valpy, and Roger Wilbraham. With bookplates of Francis Wrangham and Charles Edward Gee Barnard.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : ill., ports. (one col.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9351944 View

Catholic Church. [Praeparatio ad missam pontificalem].

Title: [Praeparatio ad missam pontificalem]. 1520.

ArchivalResource: 19 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 396 x 266 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270127265 View

Roxburghe Club album, 1807-1936.

Title: Roxburghe Club album, 1807-1936.

Album containing a collection of ALS written by members of the Roxburghe Club, London, including George Spencer Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, and William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire. A letter written by John Ker, third Duke of Roxburghe, is also included. Related engravings, clippings, bookplates, coats of arms, and club rules, member lists, and other printed materials are tipped and laid in. Holograph and typed contents lists laid in.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([39] leaves) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702146041 View

Book collectors miscellaneous papers, 1649-1937.

Title: Book collectors miscellaneous papers, 1649-1937.

Letters dealing with book or manuscript acquisitions by American, English, and French book-collectors.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00907/catalog View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01530/catalog View

Hibbert, George, 1757-1837. Autograph manuscript commonplace book : London, 1785-1820.

Title: Autograph manuscript commonplace book : London, 1785-1820.

Includes Hibbert's autograph manuscripts of prologues and epilogues to various plays put on at his home in Clapham. There are also transcriptions of verse and prose pieces by others, including family members and prominent writers such as Fielding, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Byron, Hogg, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and copies of poems by Richard Sharp or Sharpe.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (135 p.) ; 28.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270871005 View

Hunter, Claudius Stephen, Sir, 1st Baronet, 1775-1851. Autograph letter signed : Mansion House, to Colonel Hibbert, 1805 May 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Mansion House, to Colonel Hibbert, 1805 May 30.

Requesting to be the solicitor to obtain the charter for the London Institution as he had done for the Royal Institute.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269530191 View

Hibbert, George, 1757-1837,. Autograph letter signed from George Hibbert, Portland Place, to Thomas Frognall Dibdin [manuscript], 1824 December 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed from George Hibbert, Portland Place, to Thomas Frognall Dibdin [manuscript], 1824 December 8.

Suggest a few corrections for the new edition of The library companion (1825).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Venice (Republic : to 1797). Doge (1567-1570 : Loredan). [Dogale].

Title: [Dogale]. [ca. 1567-1599]

ArchivalResource: 1 single leaf, matted (1 column, 22 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 227 x 162 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270755429 View

" A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of Foreigners who have resided in or visited England, from the earliest times down to the year 1777 "; by Joseph Gulston (ob. 1786), whose collections for the work are in Add. 24,353-24,356. Six volumes, arranged in alphab...

Title: " A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of Foreigners who have resided in or visited England, from the earliest times down to the year 1777 "; by Joseph Gulston (ob. 1786), whose collections for the work are in Add. 24,353-24,356. Six volumes, arranged in alphab... Late 18th century

ArchivalResource: 6 items

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Hibbert, George, 1757-1837. List of rarities in the possession of George Hibbert [manuscript], 18th or 19th century?

Title: List of rarities in the possession of George Hibbert [manuscript], 18th or 19th century?

Personal list of rarities in Hibbert's library.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 24 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435414759 View

Thomas Frognall Dibdin papers, 1798-1836.

Title: Thomas Frognall Dibdin papers, 1798-1836.

Letters on the publication of Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron; letters and clippings concerning the book collector Richard Heber, and letters, manuscripts, and printed material on Dibdin's various publications.

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes (.4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00807/catalog View