Category Archives: Ephemera

To be drawn in Guildhall, in one day

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Printed handbill; woodcut illustration of ‘The Grand Hotel’ positioned in the center, with letterpress text above and below.
On verso: half page woodcut illustration of a hay-maker in front of a grand house; below, advertising poem for the lottery, entitled ‘The Hay-Maker.’

  • Title: To be drawn in Guildhall, in one day, Tuesday the 26th this month, the Grand City of London Lottery for Freehold Houses : discharged of Land-Tax, and valued at upwards of £100,000 in capital prizes.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1808]

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File 66 808 T627

Acquired March 2024

 

Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, most respectfully notices to the Ladies…

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Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon was a maker of stays who was granted a patent in 1801.

  • Author: Gibbon, Martha Morling, 1772-1832.
  • Title: Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, most respectfully notices to the Ladies, that they may be immediately supplied with her Anatomical Stays, which have come under the inspection of the most eminent physicians and surgeons …
  • Publication: [London] : [Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon], [approximately 1825]

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File 66 825 G439

Acquired July 2023

As the Act of Parliament for an additional duty on news-papers

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printed text with hand-written notes

  • Title: As the Act of Parliament for an additional duty on news-papers will take place the 5th of next month … I am sorry I am under the necessity of acquainting you, that, after the expiration of this quarter, the papers you have now from me can no longer be served on present terms; but must, from that day be charged per quarter as under …
  • Publication: [England] : [publisher not identified], [1757]

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File 66 757 As798

Acquired November 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

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

A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters

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A collection of seven copper theater passes or tickets for London theatres dating between 1762 and approximately 1820, all blank on the obverse sides except for the token for the Box Prince’s Side (BPS 1796) which is decorated with a chain of small linked circles around the perimeter. The 1788 token for a box at Covent Garden is the only token with a hole in the center.

  • Title: A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters.
  • Production: [England], [between 1762 and 1820?]

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66 762 C697

Acquired November 2023

Facing Allmack’s. EO table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver

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Printed trade card advertising gambling at an EO table.

  • Title: Facing Allmack’s. EO table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1780s?]

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File 66 780 Al444

Acquired November 2023

Thomas Haines Jun. fly waggons to London

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An illustrated advertising handbill for Thomas Haines’s fly waggons and fly vans, running from the Blossoms Inn in the City of London to the Royal Hotel Yard, Cheltenham. Illustrated with a vignette at head of a covered fly waggon driven by two men; and a vignette at foot of a fly van with driver at front and armed coachman at rear.

  • Author: Thomas Haines Jun. (Firm)
  • Title: Thomas Haines Jun. fly waggons to London … [graphic].
  • Publication: [Cheltenham] : S.Y. Griffith & Co., copper plate printers, [182-?]
  • Manufacture: [1824?]

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File 66 824 T457+

Acquired August 2023

W. Brown, architect & surveyor, Ipswich

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A classical ruined building with Doric columns, similar to the Temple of Poseidon at Paestum, is depicted; Brown’s credentials are inscribed on a chunk of masonry in the foreground.

  • Printmaker: Robinson, John Henry, 1796-1871, printmaker.
  • Title: W. Brown, architect & surveyor, Ipswich [graphic] / W. Brown inv. et delin. ; J. Robinson sculp.
  • Publication: [England] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1825]

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File 66 825 R662

Acquired October 2023

The popular Sunday newspaper, Bell’s weekly messenger

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Advertising sheet, printed on both sides. The recto promotes two of John Bell’s newspapers; the verso contains an advertisement for Price & Gosnell, Perfumers to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

  • Title: The popular Sunday newspaper, Bell’s weekly messenger, will be conducted with becoming spirit and attention … : Another edition of the same paper, viz. – The Monday edition of Bell’s weekly messenger, is published every Monday …
  • Publication: [London] : Printed by J. Bell, No. 104 Drury-Lane, [between 1817 and 1820]

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File 66 817 P831

Acquired November 2023