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The Leamingtonian

A copy of The Leamingtonian, the magazine of Leamington College. It is volume number 20, number 6, summer 1951. The front cover of the magazine features the crest of Leamington College. It has been signed ...

The Leamingtonian

A copy of The Leamingtonian, the magazine of Leamington College, Volume 22, number 4, Winter 1954. The front cover of the magazine is grey and features the crest of Leamington College in red. The inside ...

The Mirror of Literature , Amusement & Instruction Magazine

A small magazine entitled 'The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction'. The first article features Warwick Castle and has illustrations. This magazine was issued on Saturday 21 February 1829 ...

The Nurse's Dictionary

A pocket sized brown book called The Nurse's Dictionary of Medical Terms and Nursing Treatment compiled by Honnor Morten. This is the second edition published in the late 19th century. The book once belonged ...

The Penny Magazine, 1832, Featuring Warwick Castle

Issue number 22, 4 August 1832 The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Warwick Castle is featured in the first article of this issue. The Penny Magazine was based at ...

The Tourist's English-Welsh Vocabulary

A paper-back book with an orange cover and black printing. The book explains the pronunciation of the Welsh alphabet.

The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises and Pursuits

The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises and Pursuits, by Mrs Mackarness, published by Routeledge c.1875-1900. A hard-backed book with a brown cover featuring black patterned decoration, ...

Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - men enjoying wine and fruit, title-page of part 2.

Characters in Shakespeare enjoyed an arbour in their garden scenes. The practice of enjoying the out-of-doors over a simple meal, or a drink out-of-doors on a summer’s evening may have been the ...

Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - p.25, gardeners prepare their beds..

Gardening: a task known to Shakespeare Many of Shakespeare’s scenes are set in gardens. The plays indicate a familiarity with the tasks of setting seeds, weeding and raising plants for pleasure ...

Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - text, p.A1r, gardeners at work..

Shakespeare’s gardeners in Richard II tended their garden in this way. Thomas Hill’s handbook which explains the tasks of a garden’s care includes this woodcut of an arbour which ...

Travel Poster - Cook's Programme of Tours

Thomas Cook & Son Ltd A poster from London advertising Cook's Programme of Tours. The poster depicts a book with an inlaid picture of a scene in the Bernese area of Switzerland.

Warwickshire

A hard-backed book, from London, entitled Warwickshire. It has a blue cover with gilded foliage decoration and lettering. The book describes Warwickshire and is illustrated with colour plates of watercolour ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio'- detail, Ben Jonson's Poem, p. A4r.

The 'First Folio'’s commendatory poem by Ben Jonson. At the beginning of the ‘First Folio’ is a eulogy by Shakespeare’s friend, and rival playwright, Ben Jonson, who had published ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Actors, p.A6r.

Shakespeare’s fellow actors. The company of actors known as the King’s Men, who first performed Shakespeare’s plays, had their names listed in the ‘First Folio’. Among ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Plays, p.A8r.

The comedies, histories and tragedies: play titles in the ‘First Folio’. The plays, collected together by Shakespeare’s fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, for the ‘First ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - The 'players', p. A6r - detail

Shakespeare’s fellow actors. In the 'First Folio' of Shakespeare's plays, published seven years after his death the names of the principal actors in his company, the King's Men, are named. Richard ...