A manuscript journal recording John Henry Barrow’s nine-month Continental journey through France, Switzerland, and Italy in the immediate post-Waterloo period.
LWL Mss Vol. 279
Acquired March 2022
A collection of 19 broadsides and 81 slipsongs pasted into a folio album, some printed on blue paper 52 of them having a woodcut illustration; 7 titles are present in two copies. Most were published in London, York, and Newcastle, but also Hull, Birmingham, Coventry, Easingwold, Selby, and Gateshead.
Quarto 762 So698 795
Acquired March 2022
63 F911 821
Acquired March 2022
53 M877 798
Acquired March 2022
A manuscript copy, in an unidentified hand, of Horace Walpole’s tragedy. The text appears to follow the original 1768 edition, including the postscript and without the introduction.
LWL Mss Vol. 274
Acquired March 2022
A satire on fashion and dancing, which refers to the new mania for waltzes and quadrilles.
63 L344 825
Acquired March 2022
An account of the foundation meeting of the Hull Armed Association, set up by the ‘Merchants, Ship-Owners, and other Inhabitants’ in February 1798 to ‘assist the Magistrates in support of Civil Society, and for the Defence of the Town, in case the Military should be ordered away, to oppose the landing or resist the progess of the Enemy’.
File 63 H87 798+
Acquired March 2022
A broadside ‘almanac’ that likens each calendar month to seven years in the life of a man.
File 145 Al445 1820+
Acquired March 2022
763 830 T865
Acquired March 2022
Obverse: In center, full-length portrait of Jeffery Dunstan facing right; legend inscription with Dunstan’s name and title as Mayor of Garrat. Reverse: In center, six lines of inscription with T. Hall’s address and date, the penulitimate line is much larger letters than the others and the legend inscription advertising Hall’s taxidermy services.
LWL Min. 151
Acquired March 2022