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Work Type etching

Subject Period 16th century

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1. Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testatment story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum; including notices of ecclesiastical shows, the festivals of Fools and asses--The English boy bishop--The descent into hell--The lord mayor's show--The guildhall giants--Christmas carols, &c. / by William Hone ; with engravings on copper and wood.

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Creator:: Hone, William, 1780–1842
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [2], 298, 2 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

2. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster : containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities / written at first in the year MDXCVIII ... since ... augmented by the author, and afterwards by A.M., H.D., and others ; now lastly corrected ... and ... brought down from ... 1633 ... to the present time by John Strype ... ; to which is prefixed the life of the author, writ by the editor ... added an appendix ... concerning the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: MDCCXX [1720]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port., maps, plans ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts