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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834. Autograph letter signed to Jane Porter.

Title: Autograph letter signed to Jane Porter.

One autograph letter signed to Jane Porter, 13 Sep. 1828 (PFMS MISC 2686) ; regarding a prospectus for a work by Mrs. Belzoni to be featured in his Repository of the Arts.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/72823177 View

Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01782/catalog View

Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive);, 1738-1866 (bulk).

Title: Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive); 1738-1866 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 9 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01781/catalog View

Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877. Letter to [Rudolph] Ackermann. Suffolk, Eng. 1827 Feb. 3.

Title: Letter to [Rudolph] Ackermann. Suffolk, Eng. 1827 Feb. 3.

Informing him that Cobbold's book will be out later and that 50 copies will be sent, with Ackermann's approval; admitting his anxiety over his publication.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571513 View

Doctor Johnson and the fair sex; a study of contrasts, extra-illustrated, 1738-1840 (inclusive), 1784-1837 (bulk).

Title: Doctor Johnson and the fair sex; a study of contrasts, extra-illustrated, 1738-1840 (inclusive), 1784-1837 (bulk).

Printed book with approximately two hundred inserted prints relating to thetext, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 1v. (.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01795/catalog View

Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828. Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828

Title: Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material : 48 items, 1815-1828

The Lady Caroline Lamb manuscript material in the Pforzhiemer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a holograph poem, "Lines," and a draft fragment on Napoleon. The bulk of the correspondence dates from between 1819 and 1827. Correspondents include the poet Lord Byron (her former lover); her estranged husband, William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister); the political economist T. R. Malthus; the novelist Lady Morgan; and over a dozen others.

ArchivalResource: 48 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707758437 View

Jerdan, William, 1782-1869. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to R. Ackermann, "Monday" [no year].

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to R. Ackermann, "Monday" [no year].

Asking him to give the bearer a "Forget me not."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270871147 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

Gendall, John, 1789-1865. Chiswick House (Principal Front). [graphic] / J. Gendall del.

Title: Chiswick House (Principal Front). [graphic] / J. Gendall del. [1823].

View of the house seen between trees.

ArchivalResource: 1 print ; coloured lithograph ; image 113 x 162 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500694840 View

Johnson, Mrs. Scrapbook, 1829 to 1834.

Title: Scrapbook, 1829 to 1834.

A scrapbook, based on Rudolph Ackermann's system, I am a Scrapbook ... (London : R. Ackermann, 1829), containing approximately 330 illustrations dating between 1779 and 1834, assembled by a Mrs. Johnson beginning Sept. 1, 1829. The volume contains various sizes of hand-colored plates and cutouts (32), folio-sized hand-colored political cartoons (7), hand-colored fashion plates and cutouts (80), original sketches and drawings (17), manuscript poetry (some possibly original), engraved views of English cottages, castles, and landscapes; engraved portraits; original watercolors (10), 18th century printed rebuses (4), a printed broadside, and silhouettes by Augustin Edouart (5). The Ackermann title page at the begining of the volume is a masterpiece of engraving and printing. Items in the scrapbook are mounted on varicolored sheets of paper, laid out and arranged by Mrs. Johnson, who has drawn frames or borders around the images. Included are: 7 political cartoons, 4 by "A Sharpshooter" (John Phillips), one each by "Paul Pry" (William Heath) and Charles Jameson Grant, and one anonymous (four of which are not in the British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires); 2 leaves of an 18th century rebus, The Tunbridge love letter, and, The Lady's answer to the Tunbridge love letter (British Museum Cat. 8593); An Hieroglyphic epistle from the devil to Lord North. June 23, 1779 (BM Cat. 5542, and An Hieroglyphic epistle from Lord North to the devil in answer to that from pandemonium, July 9, 1779 (BM Cat. 5543); 5 silhouettes by Augustin Edouart of well-dressed women (one presumably being Mrs. Johnson); a broadside, Description of the celebrated miller's tomb on Highdown Hill, near Worthing (Worthing : Clements, ca. 1830), the tomb being that of John Oliver; numerous plates depict the latest English and French fashions, military uniforms, ethnic costumes and English tradesmen; small engravings are of English cottages, castles, city dwellings, country houses, and country and seaside views; a series of humorous caricatures depicting nautical terms; a colored lithograph, Le Blouet, a waltz, by "Flora;" a tree depicting the profiles of European leaders of the Napoleonic era, La Plante sensitive. There are 3 engravings of scenes from Shakespeare. Prints depicting cats at a whist party; mice playing musical instruments; horses; "A Handy Dandy;" lithograph portraits of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott by Delorieux (both 1824), of Canova by Grévedon (1826); and plates depicting The Tax receiver and The Tax payer by Alken.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (125 leaves) : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 43 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472191201 View

Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819. An original signed letter from Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht Von Blücher Prince of Wahlstadt to Rudolph Ackerman .. Berlin, August 16th 1814.

Title: An original signed letter from Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht Von Blücher Prince of Wahlstadt to Rudolph Ackerman .. Berlin, August 16th 1814.

Thanks him for the sum of 500 pounds sent to alleviate the distress in Lowenberg and four villages in Silesia occasioned by the war.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/549525846 View

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834. Letter to Frederic Shoberl, 27 June 1830

Title: Rudolph Ackermann letter to Frederic Shoberl, 1830 June 27.

In a letter written at Brighton 27 June 1830, Rudolph Ackermann discusses several pending publications with editor Frederic Shoberl. Prominently mentioned is the gift book annual "Forget-me-not," and the juvenile version of "Forget-me-not," first published in 1830.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/2294219 View

Hall, Basil, 1788-1844. Letter : Edinburgh, to Mr. Ackermann, publisher, London, 1824 Nov. 14.

Title: Letter : Edinburgh, to Mr. Ackermann, publisher, London, 1824 Nov. 14.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ; 23 x 38 cm. folded to 23 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28985695 View

Pyne, William Henry, 1769-1843. Autograph letter signed : [London?], to R. Ackermann, 1802 June 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London?], to R. Ackermann, 1802 June 28.

Being an invoice for twelve copies of No. 1 of Pyne's Microcosm.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270615931 View

Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843. Copper plates used in Pyne's Etchings of rustic figures, 1814, April 1-July 1.

Title: Copper plates used in Pyne's Etchings of rustic figures, 1814, April 1-July 1.

18 etched copper plates used in the printing of W.H. Pyne's Etchings of rustic figures. London: R. Ackermann, 1815. (Abbey, J.R. Life 179). Included are plates 1-9, 11, 13, 15-20, and 41. All plates bear the same imprint as the printed leaves in the 1815 work. Plates are variously dated from April 1 to July 1, 1814. According to Abbey, a number of these plates were first published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Oct. 1812-Aug. 1814. The back of each plate is etched: I. Shafe, 24 Littlemoorfields, London. [i.e. John Shafe, copper plate maker].

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (18 plates) ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702197375 View

Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, extra-illustrated, 1668-1866 (inclusive);, 1738-1836 (bulk).

Title: Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, extra-illustrated, 1668-1866 (inclusive); 1738-1836 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 6 volumes (1.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01780/catalog View

Rudolph Ackermann manuscript material : 1 item, 1828

Title: Rudolph Ackermann manuscript material : 1 item 1828

Rudolph Ackermann, London publisher. He was best known for his fine color plate books such as The Microcosm of London, and the monthly magazine The Repository of Arts. To Jane Porter, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Sep 1828 : (MISC 2686) : regarding a prospectus for a work by Mrs. Belzoni to be featured in his Repository of the Arts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19369 View

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material : 414 items, 1815-1850

Title: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material : 414 items 1815-1850

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer. The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and transcripts. The writings include drafts of poems ("The Choice" and "To the Dead") and several short stories ("The Sisters of Albano," "The Dream," "Transformation," and others). The bulk of the correspondence dates from between 1822-1849. Correspondents include Claire Clairmont, her stepsister; Leigh Hunt, the journalist and critic; Lord Byron's last mistress, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli; Edward Moxon, the publisher and poet; and over seventy-five others. The transcripts are chiefly comprised of her handwritten copies of letters originally by her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

ArchivalResource: 414 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/22142 View

Rudolph Ackermann letter to Stephen Elliot, 1822

Title: Rudolph Ackermann letter to Stephen Elliot 1822

German art publisher and bookseller in London. Letter and invoice for lithographic panels ordered by Mr. Stephen Elliot.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6453 View

L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 1802-1838. Letters, 1825-1838.

Title: Letters, 1825-1838.

Concerning her poetry, social activities and her health.

ArchivalResource: 65 items (107 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122407299 View

Randolph Caldecott drawings, 1870-1886.

Title: Randolph Caldecott drawings, 1870-1886.

Drawings by the English artist Randolph Caldecott.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes and 11 volumes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00319/catalog View

Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. Autograph letter signed : Bremhill, to [Rudolph] Ackermann, 1826 Dec. 1826.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Bremhill, to [Rudolph] Ackermann, 1826 Dec. 1826.

Sending "some lines, which would make a subject for engraving."

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270910847 View

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834. Rudolph Ackermann letter to Frederic Shoberl, 1930 June 27.

Title: Rudolph Ackermann letter to Frederic Shoberl, 1930 June 27.

In a letter written at Brighton 27 June 1830, Rudolph Ackermann discusses several pending publications with editor Frederic Shoberl. Prominently mentioned is the gift book annual "Forget-me-not," and the juvenile version of "Forget-me-not," first published in 1830.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55718685 View

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834. [Rudolph Ackermann : Australian and New Zealand Art Files].

Title: [Rudolph Ackermann : Australian and New Zealand Art Files].

ArchivalResource: 1 file.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/368063476 View

Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes, 1792-1836. Autograph letter signed : Woburn Abbey, to [Rudolph] Ackermann, 1824 June 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Woburn Abbey, to [Rudolph] Ackermann, 1824 June 29.

Discussing engravings for his translation of Tasso.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270872502 View

Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01783/catalog View