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I have also a very graphic pen-and-ink sketch of this Cavendish Square scene by my father Isaac Taylor, the young brother of Ann and Jane, made for the frontispiece when he was only 17 years of age.

It was badly engraved for the first edition, and with various unfortunate alterations for many later issues. At the time when this sketch was made there was still an ostenta- tious grandeur in the doings of our nobility incredible to the present generation.

This frontispiece is obviously a careful sketch of what my father saw. Here is the grand lady being helped into her carriage by two footmen with powdered hair. A pos- tilion sits on one of the two front horses of a team of four. A majestic coachman sits on the box. Two more footmen stand up behind. The liveries throughout are re- splendent, and an enormous coat of arms covers the hammer-cloth.

This little book passed through fifty edi- tions in England, and was translated into German, Dutch, and Russian.

MB. CoRFiELD-asks," Who was E. Taylor]? " Emily Taylor was a somewhat voluminous writer of hymns, poems, and stories for children, and, being no relation of Ann and Jane, should hardly have been mixed up with them. She died in 1872.

I would refer those who may be interested in this subject to the * D.N.B.,'] where the lives of Ann, Jane, and Isaac (the illustrator of their books) are given at length.

I may mention incidentally that four members of this family were unfortunately named Isaac, causing much inconvenience to investigators, biographers, arid others :

1. Isaac Taylor, 1730-1807, artist and en- graver.

2. Isaac Taylor, 1759-1829, artist, author, and engraver, father of Ann and Jane.

3. Isaac Taylor, 1787-1865. artist and author, illustrator of most of Ann and Jane's books.

4. Canon Isaac Taylor, 1829-1901, author of ' Words and Places,' &c.

Their identity has been made clear in the ' D.N.B.'

I may also venture to mention here that I am j ust now writing an account of the work as an artist and illustrator of books done bv my father, Isaac Taylor (1787-1865), during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, beginning at 1804; and am collecting, so far as is now possible, the original drawings of these many engravings. In particular I should like to see or obtain the 100 drawings for Boydell's Bible (1820), and those for the

frontispieces for Handel's Oratorios (1809), 4 Rural Scenes ' (1805 and 1813), ' The World turned Upside Down' ( 1810), ' Scenes in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America' (about 1822), and 'Beginnings of British Bio- graphy' (about 1822)..

These drawings must be buried in some collection. They have been commented on by Haydon, Rossetti, Gilchrist, and others for their imaginative power.

HENRY TAYLOR, F.S.A.

Birklands, Birkdale, Lancashire.

Ann Taylor, born 30 Jan., 1782, passed away at dawn on Thursday, 20 Dec., 1866. She lies in the general cemetery, Notting- ham, in the grave where her husband, the Rev. Joseph Gilbert (who died 12 Dec., 1852), was interred. I have no copy of the inscription.

Jane Taylor was in her 41st year (not 40th) at her death, she being born on 23 Sept., 1783. WILLIAM GILBERT.

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WILLIAM (SIMON) IVE (11 S. ix. 291). Ive the musician was called Simon, not William. MR. GERISH has probably followed the ' Victoria County History of Hertfordshire,' vol. iii. p. 384, which states erroneously that Ive was baptized in the church at Ware, 20 July, 1660. The date is wrong. Ive was born at Ware, and baptized on 20 July, 1600. His chief work was done long before 1660. He died in the parish of Christ Church, New- gate Street, 1 July, 1662. Ive is in the ' D.N.B.,' and also in Grove's ' Dictionary of Music.' His will is P.C.C. Laud, fol. 97. If MR. GERISH will take the ' D.N.B.' and Mrs. Wodehouse's Index to Grove's ' Dic- tionary,' and compare the work by Ive therein recorded with the lists in Mr. Barclay Squire's Catalogue of B.M. Printed Music and the Catalogue of Manuscript Music also in the B.M., he will get as full a record of Ive's musical work as is possible.

Ive had a son, also Simon, who was a stu- dent of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1664, and who probably died young. The name ap- pears again iii our own time in the registers of Caius Coll., Cambridge :

Ive, Simon : son of George Henry Ive, goldsmith, of Cornhill, London. Admitted pensioner, 25 March, 1853; B.A., 1858; M.A., 1863 ; ordained deacon (Ely), 1862 ; priest (do.), 1863 ; curate of Ickleton, Cambs., 1862-4 ; St. James's, Taunton, 1864-6 ; St. Saviour's, Highbury, 1866-72 ; Long- bridge Deverill, 1872-5 ; St. Anne's, Hollo- way, 1876-98. Still living in Tollington Park, London. (See ' Clergy List,')