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A particular account of Thomas Smith

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A broadside recording the details of a murder of Ann Clark, committed by the accused Thomas Smith her lodger in Dorchester and the subsequent arrest and trial of Smith for the crime. Clark hanged himself the night before his planned execution.

  • Title: A particular account of Thomas Smith : who was to have been executed at Dorchester, 19 March, 1804, for the wilful murder of Ann Clark of Briant’s Piddle, in the county of Dorset.
  • Publication: [Dorchester, England] : E. Lockett, printer, Dorchester, [1804]

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File 523 Sm662 804

Acquired July 2023

Funeral anthem, to be sung at St. Mary’s Church

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Broadside printed on silk; text within mourning and decorative borders, with additional decorative borders within text. Words for the “Quartetto” and “Chorus” printed in separate boxes at bottom.

  • Title: Funeral anthem, to be sung at St. Mary’s Church, on Wednesday, the 19th of November, 1817, on the death of the truly-lamented Princess Charlotte. : Music from Handel’s funeral anthem. Words selected from the Book of Job.
  • Publication: [Southampton, England] : P. Barnfield, printer, [1817]

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File 56 C47 817Fun

Acquired July 2023

Elements of Bacchus

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A volume with caricatures illustrating toasts and satirical anecdotes.

  • Artist: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, author, artist.
  • Title: Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments given by distinguished characters. : Illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain. With a variety of anecdotes and remarkable traits, prefixed to each portrait / written and designed by George Murgatroyd Woodward.
  • Publication: London : Published by W. Holland, No. 50, Oxford-Street, 1792.

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75 W87 792 Copy 2

Acquired February 2024

Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi

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With two plates after Marcellus Laroon both depicting Quakers, one showing a Quaker man and the second a Quaker woman, both dated 1690.

  • Author: Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798, printmaker.
  • Title: Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi [graphic] / by Ben. Green of X’s [i.e. Christ’s] Hospital.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1773.

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75 G795 773

Acquired December 2023

The complete pocket-book… for the year of our Lord 1794

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  • Title: The complete pocket-book; or Gentleman’s and tradesman’s daily journal, for the year of our Lord 1794 : being the second after bissextile, or leap-year, the thirty-fourth of the reign of King George the Third, and the forty-second of the new style in Great Britain. Containing a plain and concise method for keeping account of all monies received, paid, lent, or expended, every day in the year; comprised in fifty-two pages properly ruled: also, fifty-two pages ruled, for entering all appointments, memorandums, observations, or engagements. Together with the following useful particulars: I. The stock-holders companion … II. A list of the bankers in London. III. Holidays and birth-days in 1794. IV. Remarkable and interesting events in the year 1793. …
  • Publication: London : Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, [1794]

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145 C736 794

Acquired July 2023

To the memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte

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Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of a mourning Britannia and British Lion in front of Princess Charlotte‘s tomb, which is located under a weeping willow and is adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Sixteen lines of verse are engraved at the bottom, signed “J. Thompson”.

  • Author: Thompson, J., author.
  • Title: To the memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales & Saxe-Cobourg : who died Novr. 6th, 1817 / J. Thompson.
  • Publication: London : Published by S. Rothwell, 3 Hatfield St., Blackfriars Road, [1817]

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File 56 C47 817T

Acquired July 2023

Weymouth. On Tuesday next

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A mock theater advertisement satirizing the controversial election in Weymouth when Prince Ernest Augustus was accused of influencing the election result in favour of the Tories.

  • Title: Weymouth. On Tuesday next a grand spectacle will be exhibited by the managers of the Cumberland Company of Players, called The mock election.
  • Publication: [Weymouth] : G. Kay, printer, adjoining the Guildhall, St. Edmund-Street, Weymouth, [1812]

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File 63 812 Er72

Acquired August 2023

The medical & political record, a new Sunday paper

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  • Title: The medical & political record, a new Sunday paper. : Prospectus.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed and published by C. Kerwood, at the Medical and Political Record Office, John Street, Edgware Road …, [1820]

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File 66 820 M489

Acquired November 2023

The life and adventures of Henry Lanson

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  • Title: The life and adventures of Henry Lanson, the only son of a wealthy planter in the West Indies : who, when on his voyage to England, was put on shore at an uninhabited island, where, on his perambulation up the country, he discovers the ruins of an ancient temple; and near it, the oracle of the sun, a large rude carved idol made of pure brilliant gold of a wonderful construction; which contained an immense and inestimable collection of preciouse Indian curiosoities. The manner of his converting the natives of a neighbouring island, with whom he lived several years before his departure; when he took with him an incredible quantity of riches, from the idol; and at length arrived safe in England.
  • Publication: London : Printed and sold by S. Fisher, no. 10, St. John’s Lane, Clerkenwell : Also sold by T. Hurst, no. 32, Paternoster-row, [1801]

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763 801 L722

Acquired August 2023