Leamington Priors Committee Meetings
A book containing records of committee meetings from Leamington Priors dating from 1st October 1844 to 19th December 1848.
Leamington Priors Gas Company Accounts Book
This is the accounts book for the Leamington Priors Gas Company. It contains lists of the quantities of gas supplied to customers in the Regent Street, Warwick Street, Clarendon Avenue area between 1886 ...
Leamington Spa Burial Board Minute Book
A hard back book containing minutes of meetings of the Leamington Priors Burial Board, dated 25th July 1866 to 14th October 1879.
Leamington Youth Mission Visitor Book
A visitor's book for the Leamington Youth Mission, Leamington Spa, 1963 to 1965.
List and Position of the Fire Hydrants on the Mains of the Warwick Waterworks prepared for the use of the Warwick Volunteer Fire Brigade
A book entitled List and Position of the Fire Hydrants on the Mains of the Warwick Waterworks prepared for the use of the Warwick Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1 January 1886.
Little Eric: A Story Of Honesty
'Little Eric: A Story of Honesty', published by Blackie & Son, London. A slim hard-back book. The cover is decorated with floral designs in relief and it is illustrated with monochrome prints.
Lloyds Deposit Account Book
This is a personal deposit account book from Old Bank, Leamington Spa. The book belonged to Annie Wright and was used between June 1913 and March 1926.
Local and Literary Account of Leamington
Guide to Leamington and surrounding towns by Mr Pratt, 1814, Local and Literary Account of Leamington, Warwick, Stratford, Coventry, Kenilworth, Hagley, the Leasowes, Birmingham and the Surrounding Country ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - Decorative printer's borders around a plot summary, Book 5, p.32 detail.
A printer's heading ornament in a Shakespeare sourcebook.
The finely engraved illustrations in this edition of Ariosto contrast with the simple printer’s border with decorative ornaments above ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - Ariodante and Dalinda, illustration pl.V, p.31.
Illustration for the story on which Shakespeare based a comedy sub-plot.
The tale of Ariodante, and Ginevra impersonated by Dalinda is the subject of a fine engraving in the 1634 edition of Harington's ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - binding view.
A contemporary expensive decorative binding on a Shakespeare source text
The fine gold tooling, and leather spine label are original to this volume, indicating a wealthy first owner who commissioned ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - portrait of Ariosto, prelim.p. 1r. title page, detail.
An Italian who inspired Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
The work of Italian poet and dramatist Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) had considerable influence over in English writing in Shakespeare's time, ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - shipwreck illustration , pl. XLI, p. 341
Shipwrecks and storms at sea were often in the news in Shakespeare's London.
The storms of the Mediterranean sea were notorious. Shakespeare included them in his plays of The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - shipwreck, pl.XLI.
Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. Ariosto’s storms at sea are a possible source for Shakespeare's The Tempest or Pericles.
Shipwrecks and storms often feature in Ariosto’s work, and such ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - Sir John Harington, title page, detail.
A courtier: Sir John Harington, Shakespeare's contemporary.
Sir John Harington, son of Henry VIII's treasurer, was godson to Queen Elizabeth I. He was educated at Eton College and Cambridge before ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - title page, prelim.p.1r.
An English translation of a Shakespeare source.
Shakespeare also knew the work of the Italian Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso was published in Italy in 1516, and ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 -p. 32, Book 5, a source for a sub-plot.
The source for Hero and Claudio in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Ariosto’s story of Ariodante and Genevra, as well as Matteo Bandello’s Novelle, was the main source for the Hero ...
Luxurious Bathing
An large stitch bound book in cream leather-effect material and grey card, with gold strips. It has black and red print and an etching by Sharpe of a river scene on the cover. The book describes methods ...