- Title: Case of the consumers of hops.
- Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1774]
File 652 C334 774
Acquired December 2022
Case of the consumers of hops
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Tag Archives: Brit tracts
Grand aerostatic ascent…
Broadside advertising an ascent by Sieur Krous involving balloons in the form of Henry IV of France and “a number of wild animals”, which would perform an “aerial chace, or hunt in the air”.
- Title: Grand aerostatic ascent. The nobility, gentry, and the public are most respectfully informed that the Sieur Krous, having at length succeeded in obtaining a ground for the above experiment, it will positively take place on Monday, July 3, 1815, at the Angel Gardens, Lambeth Walk, (late Chapman’s) near Vauxhall. …
- Publication: London : W. Glindon, Rupert-Street, Haymarket, 1815.
File 53 K93 815
Acquired January 2023
Proposals for engraving by subscription The British Monarchy
“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.
File 66 749 P965
Acquired May 2023
The origin of language, and Idea of a perfect government
- Title: The origin of language, and Idea of a perfect government. Two poetic epistles, to Thamyris.
- Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1785?]
496 B85 785
Acquired May 2023
A copy from Enthusiasm delineated
A prospectus of a print which was publishd by John Ireland on November 12th, 1795
- Author: Ireland, John, -1808, author.
- Title: A copy from Enthusiasm delineated, a very curious print, designed and engraved by Hogarth, of which there are only two impressions, both of them in the possession of John Ireland …
- Publication: [London] : [John Ireland], [1795]
75 H67 S795Ir
Acquired September 2022
The soul of harmony
- Title: The soul of harmony : being a collection of the most admired glees, catches, duets, and songs, ancient and modern, in the English language, as sung at the harmonic & anacreontic societies of London, Norwich, Bath, &c. &c. &c.
- Publication: Norwich : Printed and published by and for Stevenson and Matchett, Market-Place, and R.M. Bacon, Cockey-Lane; and sold by Scatcherd and Letterman …, [1804]
74 804 So722
Acquired July 2022
Execution of John Stacey, at Winchester
Printed in two columns. With woodcut illustration at top that depicts the chaotic scene of the execution, which took place on the day of the Magdalen Hill Fair, Winchester, in front of a huge crowd.
- Title: Execution of John Stacey, at Winchester, for the horrid murders of Mr. Langtrey and his housekeeper, at Portsmouth.
- Publication: [London] : Printed by J. Catnatch, 7, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials, [1829]
File 523 Ex96 829+
Acquired July 2022
The life and mysterious transactions of Richard Morris, Esq
- Author: Old acquaintance.
- Title: The life and mysterious transactions of Richard Morris, Esq. : better known by the name of Dick Spot, the conjuror, particularly in Derbyshire and Shropshire. / Written by an old acquaintance …
- Publication: London : Printed by T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, for Ann Lemoine, White-Rose-Court, Coleman-Street, and sold by T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, [1798?]
- Manufacture: [London] : Printed by T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, Lombard-Street
53 M877 798
Acquired March 2022
At a meeting of the dealers in hats and gloves
- Title: At a meeting of the dealers in hats and gloves, held this day at Robert Marflitt’s, the sign of the Bell in Scarborough aforesaid (pursuant to a recommendation from the Commissioners of the Stamp-Duties) to consider of some method to prevent the evasion of the stamps ordered by Act of Parliament to be affixed thereto and charged therewith.
- Publication: [Scarborough, England] : [publisher not identified], [1790]
File 66 790 At862+
Acquired May 2022
A catalogue of goods, to be sold by auction
- Title: A catalogue of goods, to be sold by auction, in lots, upon the premises, on Monday the 6th of March, 1786, being the stock in trade and household furniture, the property of the late John Turner, of Derby. : The sale to commence at ten o’clock, and continue ’till the whole is disposed of.
- Publication: Derby [England] : Printed by J. Drewry, [1786]
123 C357 786
Acquired May 2022