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Title: On the York Assembly Rooms
Author: Garrick, David (?)
Attribution: Garrick
Date(s): 178-?
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: On the inappropriate location of the York Assembly Rooms, and how their surroundings detract from their design; but praising the architecture
An elegy written in an empty assembly-room
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
1756
Anon., By R.O. Cambridge. A parody on Pope's epistle of Eloisa to Abelard.
An elegy written in an empty assembly-room
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
1756
Anon., By R.O. Cambridge. A parody on Pope's epistle of Eloisa to Abelard.
Articles of agreement for sale of Room Tenement in Gargrave
7 Feb 1770
1. John Parker Swinglehirst of Parkhill in Barrowford, Lancashire, gentleman 2. John Barcroft of Gisburn, gentleman, trustee for Nicholas Coulthurst, esquire Consideration: £480
The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces, for the year 1769: containing, grand and elegant designs, proper to be executed in halls, salones, vestibules, guard rooms, state rooms, parlours, dining rooms, drawing rooms, anti rooms, music rooms, cabinets, bed rooms, dressing rooms, &c. Together with six plates of mouldings at large, ornamented with curious new enrichments. The whole neatly engraved on 32 copper-plates, from original drawings, by Robert Baldwin, architect. Vol. II
Baldwin, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, M
1769
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage and two final advertisement leaves. Bedford Copy A090 [another copy] is first item in a bound volume of 2 items. Bedford Copy A090 [another ...
The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces, for the year 1769: containing, grand and elegant designs, proper to be executed in halls, salones, vestibules, guard rooms, state rooms, parlours, dining rooms, drawing rooms, anti rooms, music rooms, cabinets, bed rooms, dressing rooms, &c. Together with six plates of mouldings at large, ornamented with curious new enrichments. The whole neatly engraved on 32 copper-plates, from original drawings, by Robert Baldwin, architect. Vol. II
Baldwin, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, M
1769
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage and two final advertisement leaves. Bedford Copy A090 [another copy] is first item in a bound volume of 2 items. Bedford Copy A090 [another ...
The chimney-Piece-Maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces: beginning with the most plain and simple, and gradually ascending to the most grand and magnificent, in the Antique, Modern, Ornamental and Gothic Taste; proper to be executed in Halls, Salones, Vestibules, Guard Rooms, State Rooms, Parlours, Dining Rooms, Drawing Rooms, Anti Rooms, Music Rooms, Cabinets, Bed Rooms, Dressing Rooms, &c. Together with a table shewing the just proportions they bear to the above several and respective rooms. The Whole neatly engraved on Fifty-Four Copper-Plates, From the original drawings of Thomas Milton, John Crunden, and Placido Columbani, Architects
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
MDCCLXVI. [1766]
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage.
War horns, make room for the bucks with green bowes
1682
Caption title, page 1, reads: On the splendid entertainment of the London-prentices and lords at Merchant-Taylors-Hall. A burlesque in verse. Anon.
The Christian sanctuary : or room for returning sinners with a compassionate Saviour
Whitaker, Thomas (1710)
1704
Two sermons, on Luke xiv.22.
List of nobility and gentry who appeared at Assembly Rooms, York
Aug 1789
[Former ref: Box 26 bn 1/11]
Title: The following lines are wrote in a window in the Long Room at Copenhagen House
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Epigram on man's proclivity to sin and the impossibility of human perfection