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Taxe
Collection
History, Great Britain and Europe
The Taxe
Collection consists of approximately 700 records published in the
1800s dealing with Gaming, Card Games, Board Games, and other related
topics.
This bibliographic
listing is sorted into the following categories:
Bygone London life; pictures from a vanished past, by G. L. Apperson.
New York, James Pott & Co., 1904.
xii, 170 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA686 .A64 1904
Ashton, John, b. 1834.
Old times; a picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth
century, collected and illustrated from the satirical and other sketches
of the day by John Ashton ... With eighty-eight illustrations.
London, J. C. Nimmo, 1885.
xii, 354 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA485 .A83 1885
Ashton, John, b. 1834.
Social life in the reign of Queen Anne, taken from original sources;
by John Ashton ... With eighty-four illustrations by the author from
contemporary prints.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1882.
2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA495 .A82 1882
Benjamin, Lewis Saul, 1874-1932.
Beau Brummell; his life and letters, by Lewis Melville [pseud.]
with a frontispiece by Aubrey Hammond and sixteen other illustrations.
New York, G. H. Doran co., 1925.
xix, 313 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA538.B6 B45 1925
Berkeley, Grantley F. (Grantley Fitzhardinge), 1800-1881.
Anecdotes of the upper ten thousand: their legends and their lives.
By the Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley.
2nd ed.
London, R. Bentley, 1867.
2 v. 23 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA110 .B52 1867
Clarke, William, 1800-1838.
Every night book; or, Life after dark. By the author of "The cigar.".
London, T. Richardson, 1827.
xvi, 192 p. ; 19 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA688 .C54 1827
Derrick, Samuel, 1724-1769..
Letters written from Leverpoole, Chester, Corke, the Lake of Killarney,
Dublin, Tunbridge-Wells, Bath. By Samuel Derrick.
Dublin, Printed for G. Faulkner, J. Hoey, sen. [and others] 1767.
2 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA620 .D4 1767
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774.
The life of "Beau" Nash, by Oliver Goldsmith, with frontispiece
and introduction. Embellishments by Edgar Wilson.
San Francisco & New York, Paul Elder and Company, n.d.
128 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
(The Panel-Books)
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA483.N2 G66
Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell), 1794-1865.
The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow : being anecdotes
of the camp, court, clubs, and society, 1810-1860 / with portrait,
four woodcuts, and 20 etched and aquatint illustrations from contemporary
sources by Joseph Grego.
New York : Scribner & Welford, 1889.
2 v., [25] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA536.G86 A3 1889
The Harleian miscellany: or, A collection of scarce, curious, and
entertaining pamphlets and tracts, as well in manuscript as in print,
found in the late Earl of Oxford's library. Intrspersed with historical,
political, and critical notes.
London, Printed for T. Osborne, 1744-46.
8 v. ; 27 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA300 .H28 1744
Jackson, Catherine Charlotte, Lady, d. 1891.
The old regime; court, salons, and theatres, by Catherine Charlotte,
lady Jackson.
New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1882.
xiv, 546 p. ; 19 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DC133.8 .J13 1882
Le Gendre, Louis, 1655-1733..
Les moeurs et coutumes des Francois : dans les premiers tems de
la monarchie ... / Precedes des moeurs des anciens Germains, traduit
du latin de C. Tacite, et d'une preface, contenant quelques remarques
relatives aux usages anciens ou modernes de ces deux peuples.
Paris : Briasson, 1753.
xxxvi, 268 p. ; (12mo).
UNLV Spec. Taxe DC33.4 .L44 1753
Madden, Frederic, 1801-1873 ed.
Privy purse expenses of the Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry
the Eighth, afterwards Queen Mary: with a memoir of the princess,
and notes. By Frederick Madden.
London, W. Pickering, 1831.
ccv, 285 p. ; 23 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA347 .M17 1831
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.
Mary Wortley Montagu / written by herself.
New York :, Athenaeum Press, [1912?].
x, 334 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA501.M7 A482 1912
Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.
Shufling, cutting, and dealing, in a game at pickquet: being acted
from the year, 1653 to 1658 by O[liver] P[rotector] and others; with
great applause.
[n. p., 1659].
8 p. ; 18 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA422 .N4 1659
Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776.
The diaries of a Duchess. Extracts from the diaries of the first
Duchess of Northumberland (1716-1776). Edited by James Greig. With
a foreword by the Duke of Northumberland.
New York, George H. Doran Company [1927].
xxiii, 229 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA485 .N6 1926
Pigott, Charles, d. 1794.
The Jockey club; or, A sketch of the manners of the age ... In three
parts ... Copied from the 10th London ed.
New York, Re-printed by T. Greenleaf, 1793.
1 v. (various pagings) ; 21 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA522.A1 P6 1793
Rutledge, James, 1743-1793.
The Englishman's fortnight in Paris; or, The art of ruining himself
there in a few days. By an observer. Translated from the French.
London, T. Durham, 1777.
x, 222 p. ; 21 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DC729 .R936 1777
Stirling, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering, comp.
The letter-bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope, compiled from
the Cannon Hall papers, 1806-1873, by A.M.W. Stirling.
London, New York, J. Lane, 1913.
2 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA536.S7 S8 1913
Thomson, A. T., Mrs., 1797-1862.
The wits and beaux of society by Grace and Philip Wharton.
[Ed. 2.].
Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, pref. 1860.
v. ; 20 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA485 .T56 1860
Turner, Thomas, 1729-1793.
The diary of Thomas Turner of East Hoathly (1754-1765) edited by
Florence Maris Turner (Mrs. Charles Lamb) with an introduction by
J.B. Priestly.
London, John Lane, 1925.
xxx, 111 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
UNLV Spec. Taxe DA485 .T8 1925
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.
Caricature history of the Georges ; or, Annals of the House of Hanover
/ compiled from the squibs, broadsides, window pictures, lampoons
and pictorial caricatures of the time. By Thomas Wright ... With nearly
four hundred illustrations on steel and wood.
London, Chatto and Windus 1876.
xiii, 639 p. [13] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
