Westminster election handbill
File 646 788 B751
Acquired March 2020
646 796 B792
Acquired August 2020
Tables with equivalent values in gilders and English money
63 719 Sch323
Acquired June 2020
In support of Lord John Townshend against Lord Samuel Hood in the Westminster election of 1788
File 66 788 En56
March 2020
Letterpress text with wood-engravings on either side of the title at head of sheet: on the left “Temperance and Happy Family” and on the right “Intemperance and Miserable Family”. Below the heading and on the upper half of the sheet, an explanation of a wood-engraving in the center entitled “The Drunkard’s Coat of Arms”. On the lower half of the sheet, a poem in four columns, surrounding another large central image of a drunken crowd, including a woman feeding her infant from a wine glass; the rowdy, celebrating in a room with a row of large barrels labeled “Holland, Brand[y], Rum, Old Tom, Cream of the Valley.”
833.00.00.16+
Acquired November 2020
A playbill
File 767 P69B C838 1810 5/26
Acquired November 2020
62 711 Oc15
Acquired April 2020
Acquired April 2020
Letterpress text discussing the line of succession above an etched genealogical chart, which illustrates the line of succession, following the reign of George IV, probably published in response to the death of Princess Charlotte in 1817 and before the birth of Victoria in 1819. However, the text also references “the present Princess of Wales”, but further evidence that this was issued in response to her death is the dark black border around her name.
Imprint etched at top of chart. Date from letterpress: “The following is a brief sketch. A.D. 1818.”
File 63 818 On58++
Acquired August 2020
A Westminster election handbill.
File 646 788 T753
Acquired March 2020