Sotheran’s York guide

printed text

  • Author: Sotheran, Henry.
  • Title: Sotheran’s York guide : including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
  • Publication: York : Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, for H. Sotheran, St. Helen’s-Square: Sold by R. Baldwin, Paternoster-Row, London; and by all the Book-Sellers in Town and Country, anno 1796.

Catalog Record

64 796 Y81

Acquired March 2023

The spectres, or, Lord Oswald and Lady Rosa

colored frontispiece and printed title page

  • Author: Wilkinson, Sarah Scudgell, 1779-1831, author
  • Title: The spectres, or, Lord Oswald and Lady Rosa : including an account of the Marchioness of Civetti, who was basely consigned to a dungeon beneath her castle, by her eldest son, whose cruel avarice plunged him into the commission of the worst of crimes, that stain the annals of the human race : an original romantic tale / by Sarah Wilkinson.
  • Publication: London : Printed and published by J. Fairburn, 110, Minories, [1814?]

Catalog Record

763 814 W687

Acquired April 2023

Proposals for engraving by subscription The British Monarchy

printed text

“Conditions: I. That this Work shall consist of 250 Copper Plates of the same Size as these Proposals, and be Printed on the same Paper. II. That five half sheets shall be Published once a Fortnight… III. That the Subscribers names and their respective Titles shall be Alphabetically Digested… IV. That those who please to favour us with their Names and Places of Abode… V. That the First Number will be delivered on Saturday the Second Day of December next. Subscriptions are taken in by George Bickham… There will be some Books printed on Large Paper, and those who may have them, at Nine-pence a Number.”

 

  • Title: Proposals for engraving by subscription The British Monarchy: or, A new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain. Comprehending the British Isles, the American Colonies, the Electoral States, the African & Indian Settlements … engrav’d by George Bickham.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], October 1749.

Catalog Record

File 66 749 P965

Acquired May 2023

Anecdotes of Mary, or, The good governess

frontispiece and title page of bound volume

Publications for the instruction and amusement of young people.

  • Author: H. S., author.
  • Title: Anecdotes of Mary, or, The good governess. / By the author of The history of the Davenport family.
  • Publication: London : Printed for E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard MDCCXCV [1795]

Catalog Record

659 795H

Acquired January 2023

Description of the grand picture of the queen’s trial

printed text

  • Author: Revelli, Vincenzo Antonio.
  • Title: Description of the grand picture of the queen’s trial; presenting correct likenesses of Her Majesty and counsel, and above two hundred other portraits of the principal nobility, with an accurate representation of the interior of the House of Lords, as it appeared on that memorable occasion / painted by V.A. Revelli … Now exhibiting, daily, at no. 80 1/2, Pall Mall.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the proprietor, 1821.

Catalog Record

523 C292 821

Acquired September 2022

The Northumberland poll-book

printed text

  • Title: The Northumberland poll-book : containing a list of the freeholders who voted at the contested elections for the County of Northumberland in the years 1747-8, 1774, and in Feb. and March, 1826 : including a complete collection of the papers which appeared in 1774, and the aauthentic papers, speeches, &c. relating to the election in Feb. and March, 1826.
  • Publication: Alnwick : Printed and published by W. Davison, 1826.

Catalog Record

64 N974 826

Acquired October 2022

Anniversary meeting of the Guardians of the Asylum

description belowInvitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves.

 

  • Creator: Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
  • Title: Anniversary meeting of the Guardians of the Asylum : at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on [blank] May 19th, 179 [blank]. Dinner ticket, price 10s. 6d.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [179-]

Catalog Record

File 66 79- As861

Acquired November 2022

The origin of language, and Idea of a perfect government

printed text

  • Title: The origin of language, and Idea of a perfect government. Two poetic epistles, to Thamyris.
  • Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1785?]

Catalog Record

496 B85 785

Acquired May 2023

Trial and execution of these unhappy young men

printed text

A crudely printed broadside with numerous typographical errors, the text in three columns.
With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution: a crowd watching four men hang from the gallows.

 

  • Title: Trial and execution of these unhappy young men : who was [sic] executed at the Old Bailey this morning.
  • Publication: [London] : Bishop, printer, 14 Shorts Gardens, Drury Lane, [1830]

Catalog Record

File 52 T819 830+

Acquired November 2022

The Golden dreamer

printed text

  • Title: The Golden dreamer ; or, The universal guide to the interpretation of dreams : with a correct signification of moles on men and women.
  • Publication: Alnwick : Printed and sold by W. Davison, Bondgate Street, where may be had, a large assortment of histories, tracts, pictures, children’s Books, &c., [between 1830 and 1850?]

Catalog Record

File 69 830 G618

Acquired November 2022