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Fleur-de-lis, between the letters ‘L A’, in an elaborate frame.

Two flying storks, one feeding the other, within an ouroboros.

Two vipers, one with the head of the other in its mouth, forming a circle around the motto ‘Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris’, all within a roundel with female figures on either side. Above the roundel is a monogram of the letters ‘IASDT’, and below it a printer’s mark containing the initials ‘I A S’. Engraved by I. David, from a design by F. C. This device appears in the edition of Paracelsus’ works published by the brothers in 1668.

A porcupine below the motto ‘Mordentes sauciabuntur’, within a strapwork car-touche. This device appears at the end of Icones operum misercordiae, by Giulio Roscio (1586).

The visit of the Magi, within an strapwork cartouche. At the foot is a printer’s mark containing the initials ‘F. M.’

Two flying storks, one feeding the other, surrounded by the motto ‘Honora patrem tuum, et matrem tuam, ut sis longæus super terram. Ex. xx.’ and by various depictions of filial devotion. At the head are the printer’s arms, and at the foot his mark containing the initials ‘S. C.’ Engraved by Picquet. This device appears in Nicholas Abram’s Commentarius in tertium volumen orationum M. T. Ciceronis (1631).

Most of the title has been cut off.

Printed on peach-coloured paper. Marked by hand ‘Mr Deane’.

A fairly large bill (39 x 23 cm), on stiff paper, printed by J. Diggens, St Ann’s Lane, London. Includes a coloured engraving [by Rowlandson] captioned ‘Time & Death their Thoughts impart | On Works of Learning & of Art’, published on 1 April 1814.

Includes an engraving by Branston from a drawing by Thurston.

It is agreed that the work shall be printed in two volumes in quarto on royal paper, with the prints used in the Spanish edition printed by A. B is to procure the copy of the translation at his own expense and A are to furnish the plates for this and any future quarto editions, the cost of print and paper being divided equally between them. If B is obliged to furnish Jervas with fifty sets of books he is to pay A £25 as well as the cost of the print and paper for them. The net profits in this and any future editions printed by A and B shall be equally divided, and if they print the book in any other size the costs of engraving the plates shall be equally borne and A shall allow Mr [John] Vanderbank’s designs to be used. The property of a moiety of the translation shall be vested by B in A, but the property of the original quarto plates, after being used, shall remain in A.

Instructs them to send 1200 livres each by the hands of someone of their choice, who is to go to the main door of the church at Guêprei on 18 Feb., whence they will be conducted by six hussars to the place where the money is to be left. If the ransom is not paid Fluard will send two hundred armed men and sixty horsemen to raid their properties (i.e. those of Cordier and Le Lievre) on the 20th.

(Certified by Lévêque as a true copy. Transcribed from a transcript certified by Le Roy. Sent with f. 15.)

Dated at Tonbridge and headed ‘(4.)’. Numbered 14.

First line: ‘Oh! quis te furor aut malignus error’.

It is unclear which edition this is from.

Each page is headed ‘Whittingham and Arliss’ Catalogue’. The books advertised are The London Theatre, by Thomas Dibdin (‘the first number … appeared on the 17th of September [1814]; and the publication will be regularly continued every Saturday’); The History of Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson; Maxims, Opinions, and Characters … from the Works of … Edmund Burke, 2nd ed.; The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel De Foe; A Narrative of the Voyages round the World performed by Captain James Cook, by Andrew Kippis; and Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, by Catharine Talbot.