A mock theater advertisement satirizing the controversial election in Weymouth when Prince Ernest Augustus was accused of influencing the election result in favour of the Tories.
File 63 812 Er72
Acquired August 2023
763 801 L722
Acquired August 2023
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.
File 66 824 T457+
Acquired August 2023
A broadside on Christopher Bullock, a tiny but fat watch and clock-maker in Suffolk; with a woodcut showing a portrait of Bullock, holding a wig in his left hand, mopping his brow with the other; with letterpress title and text, including information on other people of Suffolk including another dwarf Miss B-t-h-c-r, and a table listing market days and distances from London of towns on the road to Yarmouth, and with one vertical segment of type ornaments. See British Museum online catalogue.
755.00.00.27
Acquired August 2023
Valentine writer comprising twenty-four comic valentine texts, many with small illustrations. Hand-colored folding plate with a comic valentine to a cook, above which is a red-nosed caricature.
Original self-wrappers, the upper with an engraved vignette of cupid firing an arrow from the center of a rose, titling above and imprint below, the whole in a double rule frame with decorative floral corner ornament.
File 19 820L
Acquired August 2023
A man stands beside a public water pump holding the ladle that is chained to the pump. Looking straight at the viewer, he toasts the King with water from the ladle. Below the image are the words “Pure loyalty. Here’s a health to the King God bless him.”
830.00.00.168
Acquired August 2023