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

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]

Catalog Record 

File 66 757 As798

Acquired November 2023

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

printed text

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]

Catalog Record

File 56 C47 817Fun

Acquired July 2023

A specimen of ink lithography from R. Martin’s

description below

“Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with ‘A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin’s / 124 High Holborn.’; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed ‘Henry R’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Martin, Robert, active 1770-1838, printmaker, publisher.
  • Title: A specimen of ink lithography from R. Martin’s, 124 High Holborn [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : [R. Martin], [1837]

Catalog Record

837.00.00.43

Acquired November 2023

To the memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte

printed text

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]

Catalog Record

File 56 C47 817T

Acquired July 2023

The medical & political record, a new Sunday paper

printed text

  • 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]

Catalog Record

File 66 820 M489

Acquired November 2023

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

printed business card

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?]

Catalog Record

File 66 780 Al444

Acquired November 2023

Thomas Haines Jun. fly waggons to London

description below

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?]

Catalog Record

File 66 824 T457+

Acquired August 2023

W. Brown, architect & surveyor, Ipswich

description below

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]

Catalog Record

File 66 825 R662

Acquired October 2023

The popular Sunday newspaper, Bell’s weekly messenger

printed text

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]

Catalog Record

File 66 817 P831

Acquired November 2023