Tag Archives: Annotations (Provenance)

The Yorkshire memorandum book

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  • Title: The Yorkshire memorandum book; or, Daily journal, for the year 1796. : Containing ruled writing-paper, for the purpose of keeping accounts of receipts, disbursements, appointments, &c. Also the following useful particulars: I. Members of the Corporation of York. II. Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of York … XXII. Racing calendar, containing an account of the races for legal prizes in Great Britain in the year 1795.
  • Publication: York : Printed and sold by W. Blanchard; also sold by Mr. Richardson, under the Royal-Exchange, London; and by the booksellers of York &c. &c. &c., [1796]

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145 Yo65 1795

Acquired December 2023

W.E. Gladstone collection…..Queen Caroline Affair

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A collection of 256 mostly British satirical prints and broadsides commenting on the scandalous relations between Queen Caroline and King George IV including those commenting on the “Queen Caroline Affair” of 1820, purportedly assembled by William Gladstone and mounted in chronological order in two albums. Many of the prints and broadsides are annotated apparently in W.E. Gladstone’s hand, with the exact month and date of publication and the identities of the person being satirized. Later pencil annotations have been added to mounting sheet along with extracts from the description of the print from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, these later annotations probably added by the 20th-century owner of the volumes, Ernest R. Gee.

  • Creator: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898, collector.
  • Title: [W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the “Queen Caroline Affair”] [graphic].
  • Published: [London], [ca. 1835?]

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Folio 724 835G (Oversize)

Acquired February 2024

The Qu-n’s ass in a band-box

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The Queen, grossly caricatured, sits on a zebra which stands in a round band-box with a hinged and upturned lid inscribed ‘a Present from Bart. Bergami’. The zebra has the (profile) head of Wood, looking with greedy and imbecile satisfaction towards a sieve of food inscribed ‘Garden of St Cath[erine]’. This is held out by two hands projecting from the right margin. The Queen, with a grin both calculating and insane, sits full-face, negligently holding reins attached to Wood’s mouth, her right hand on her hip. She sits in a smaller (bottomless) band-box which surrounds her entirely from just below her large waist down, with only one leg extended below. She wears a décolletée dress; on her head is an erection of feathers and flowers rising from a circlet inscribed ‘Wood’. An owl (cf. British Museum satires no. 14199) flies by her head. In the background is Brandenburgh House, in front of which is a braying ass.

  • Title: The Qu-n’s ass in a band-box [graphic].
  • Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1821]

Catalog Record

821.00.00.23

Acquired October 2023

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

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  • 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

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]

Catalog Record

145 C736 794

Acquired July 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

Piccane a Miamis

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A head and shoulders profile portrait of Miami chief Pacanne, holding a tomahawk across his chest, with bracelets on his upper arms and jewellery in his ears, nose and across the crown of his head.

  • Printmaker: Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762-1850, printmaker.
  • Title: Piccane a Miamis [graphic].
  • Publication: [England] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1794]

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795.00.00.87

Acquired September 2023

General Order. Horse-Guards. 14th August, 1821

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  • Title: General Order. Horse-Guards. 14th August, 1821. : In consequence of the orders for the court going into mourning for Her late Majesty, it is directed that the officers of the Army shall, on the present melancholy occasion, wear a black crape round their left arms with their uniforms.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland-court, Strand, for HIs Majesty’s Stationery-office, [1821]

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File 53 C292 821G

Acquired July 2023

A calendar, or List of the several prisoners to be tried

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  • Title: A calendar, or List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757 : the times of their commitments, their several crimes, and by whom committed.
  • Publication: Norwich : Printed by Robert Davy, by order of the goaler, [1757]

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File 52 C149 757++

Acquired November 2022