The Layton Collection

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge & Pleasure, Vol 29 John Hinton, 1761. Layton Collection 3621.   Back to main resource
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The European Magazine & London Review Containing the Literature, History, Politics, Manners & Amusements of the Age, Vol III Printed for John Fielding, 1782. Layton Collection 3568.   Back to main resource
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Contained herein, is former Royal Marine Isaac Bickerstaff’s comic opera, The Maid of the Mill. With music by Samuel Arnold, it was well received and often performed at Covent Garden. Later, together with Garrick, Bickerstaff was accused of homosexuality and fled to France, where he
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The Art of Painting, with remarks, translated in English with an original preface containing a parallel between painting and poetry by Mr Dryden, also a short account of the most eminent painters both ancient and modern by R.G. esq., 2nd ed., C. A. Du Fresnoy.
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Memoirs of the Royal Society; being a new abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions: giving an account of the undertakings, studies and labours of the learned and ingenious in many considerable parts of the world. From the first institution of that illustrious society in the year
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Magna Britannia et Hibernia, antiqua & nova, or a new survey of Great Britain, Wherein to the topographical account given to Mr. Camden, and the late editors of his Britannia, is added a more large history, not only of the cities, boroughs, towns and parishes
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As the first significant challenge to the King’s received reputation in English histography, this book, on its release, propelled Horace Walpole into the vanguard of Richard III’s early defenders, and is widely recognised as a landmark in the controversy and argument surrounding the King’s troubled
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The antiquities, natural history, ruins and other curiosities of Egypt, Nubia and Thebes, exemplified in near two hundred drawings taken on the spot by Frederic Lewis Norden, member of the Royal Societies of London, Paris and Copenhagen, and commander of a vessel sent by the
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Anecdotes of painting in England with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr George Vertue, and now digested and published from his original manuscript, Vol. 1, 3rd ed., Horace Walpole. Although Vertue published several volumes
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W G Browne’s undoubted prowess as an explorer, was however, not matched by his literary skill, and his concise, yet rather dry account of his travels, was not popular with a public used to flowery eloquence from their travel writers. Undeterred by his travelogue’s public
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