[Interior of a gothic crypt]

Posted on November 24, 2015 by km55

“Interior of a gothic vault, with a tomb on the left lit by a hanging lamp and decorated with a reclining man in tudor dress holding a baton; to right are a couple leaning against a pillar, and a man holding a torch gesturing towards the tomb …”–British Museum online catalogue.

Printmaker: Manskirch, Franz Joseph, 1768-1840, printmaker.
Title: [Interior of a gothic crypt] [graphic] / Mannskirsch delt. & sculp.
Publication: London : Pubd. Feby. 16, 1799, at R. Ackermanns, 101 Strand …, [16 February 1799]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

799.02.16.02+

Acquired July 2015

Mr. Justice Ashhurst’s charge to the Grand Jury

Posted on November 17, 2015 by km55

Author: Ashurst, William Henry, Sir, 1725-1807.
Title: Mr. Justice Ashhurst’s charge to the Grand Jury for the County of Middlesex.
Published: London : Printed from a corrected copy, and sold by John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1792.

Catalog Record

File 63 792 A819+

Acquired July 2015

Susanna Oakes

Posted on November 9, 2015 by km55

Portrait showing Susanna Oakes, who ran the circulating library at Ashbourne from about 1795 until 1801, seated in a ladder-back chair with a backdrop of shelved books. She is seated beside an occasional table, her quill pen within reach, in an attitude of contemplative thought. Her left arm is clearly seen to have a muscle wasting disease, and a cane resting against the chair confirms some form of disability.

Title: Susanna Oakes [graphic] : keeper of the circulating library at Ashborne [sic] in the County of Derby.
Publication: [Derby : J. Drewry, 1802?]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

Portraits Oa11 no. 1

Acquired July 2015

General Coach Offices, White Horse Inn

Posted on November 2, 2015 by km55

Handbill that lists the routes and timings of departure for coaches operated in 1806 by Roberts, Thompson and Co., leaving London from the White Horse Inn, Fetter Lane and Cross Keys Inn, Wood Street, to a variety of destinations, including Chester, Cambridge, Canterbury, Edinburgh, Fakenham, Hull, Ipswich, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Yarmouth, and York. With unidentified contemporary ms. notes from newspaper notices dated 27 September 1806, in ink

Author: Roberts, Thompson, and Co.
Title: General Coach Offices, White Horse Inn, Fetter Lane, and Cross Keys Inn, Wood Street, 2 doors from Cheapside, London.
Publication: London : Printed by Sabine & Son, Shoe Lane, [1806]

Catalog Record

File 646 806 R647

Acquired July 2015

Topsy turvy print depicting the heads…..

Posted on October 26, 2015 by km55

Optical illusion, showing one head which, depending on whether it is turned, appear to be either bespectaled older woman or a young woman with an object around her neck.

Title:[Topsy turvy print depicting the heads of both an old bespectacled woman and a young lady] [graphic].
Publication:[Londo : Published Jany. 12, 1790, by I. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London, 12 January 1790]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

790.01.12.01

Acquired July 2015

Circumstances of the death of Mr. Scawen

Posted on October 20, 2015 by km55

Account of the trial of Miss Jane Butterfield, on an indictment for murder, at the late assizes for the county of Surry, held at Croydon

Title: Circumstances of the death of Mr. Scawen, with genuine particulars relative to Miss Jenny Butterfield, now under confinement, and charged with the murder of that gentleman : including a relation of the origin of her family, the particulars of her seduction and onnections, and the manner in which Mr. Scawen was really poisoned; with anecdotes of Mr. M-, the brewer, and Captain —-.
Published: London : Printed for J. Whitaker, Mitre Court, Fleet Street ; and sold at all the pamphlet shops at the Royal Exchange, MDCCLXXV [1775]

Catalog Record

File 523 B988 775

Acquired July 2015

Many a good razor has been cast aside as useless…

Posted on October 5, 2015 by km55

At foot of the first page: “Sold by the proprietor, G. Packwood, 16, Gracechurch-street London.”
On the verso: “Vended in London by the following perfumers” and “Vended in the country by the following perfumers.”

Author: Packwood, George.
Title: Many a good razor has been cast aside as useless and good for nothing, till pro bono publico, a fact; or, proof positive. Step’d forward, to give ease to the cheek, comfort to the upper lip, a pleasant familiarity to the chin and an uncommon agreeable surprize to the bearded physiognomy which takes place by a razor being strop’d or sharpen’d on Packwood’s new invented razor strop: …
Published: [London : G. Packwood , 1795?]

Catalog Record

File 66 795 P119

Acquired July 2015

To the natives of the parish of St Giles’s..

Posted on September 25, 2015 by km55

An invitation to the ancient ceremony of beating the bounds, with a large view of St. Giles’s from the south (figures include a strolling couple, a playing boy, and a cripple with his dog) and a vignette of the church. The form has blanks left for the signatures of the stewards as well as the date (day, month, and the two numbers for the decade) and place of dining to be written in by hand.

Author: Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
Title: To the natives of the parish of St Giles’s Cripplegate, London … [graphic] / J. Sturt sc.
Publication: [London : The Church stewards, ca. 1756]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

File 646 17– D952+

Acquired July 2015

Queen Caroline of England

Posted on September 22, 2015 by km55

Acquired with File 66 821 T627. An appeal for gifts of money in exchange for a pewter token.

Title: Queen Caroline of England, died Augt. 1, 1821, aet. 53 Augt. 1. 1821 [realia].
Production: [London? : Publisher not identified, 1821]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

66 821 T627 Object Rm

Acquired July 2015

The bonny broom

Posted on August 31, 2015 by km55

A slip song. In this edition the woodcut shows a pastoral scene with a couple standing on the left beneath a tree and two dogs on the right.

Title: The bonny broom : a song, new set to music.
Publication: [King’s Lynn, England : Printed and sold at Garratt’s Printing-Office in Lynn, Norfolk, ca. 1780]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

File 763 780 B716+

Acquired July 2015

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[Interior of a gothic crypt]

Mr. Justice Ashhurst’s charge to the Grand Jury

Susanna Oakes

General Coach Offices, White Horse Inn

Topsy turvy print depicting the heads…..

Circumstances of the death of Mr. Scawen

Many a good razor has been cast aside as useless…

Queen Caroline of England

The bonny broom

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