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The busy body, or, Men and manners

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Vol. 1. A fashionable fop — A fashionable belle / Williams fect. — Royal methodists — Chief pillars of an illustrious house — Gloucestershire glory — Catching a bald coot in an hospital. Vol. 2. The special retainer, or, A patriotic councellor pleading to the point!!! — Foppish attitudes, or, Well known characters no. 1 / Williams fect. — A barristerial duel, or, Who’s sent to Coventry now — The spa fields hunt-er, or A patriot mounted — The life of Cobbett, Plate 1 — The life of Cobbett, Plate 2. Vol. 3. A minister of state trying on his new livery — The life of Cobbett, Plate 3 / Gillray invt. — The life of Cobbett, Plate 4 / Gillray invt. — Suspension of habeas corpus — Castles in the air, or, Villiany rewarded — Traveling by steam. Vol. IV. View of a sea port in Norfolk — How happy I could be with either!! — Beauties of the saloon, a Prime Minister at Covent Garden Theatre — A peace and plenty.!! (Political portraits, no.1) — Two well known officers on full and half pay — A worldly bishop and a godly curate, or, Pillars of the Church.

  • Title: The busy body, or, Men and manners / edited by Humphrey Hedgehog.
  • Publication: London : Published by J. Johnston, 98, Cheapside, and 335 Oxford Street, 1816-1818.

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61 B982

Acquired September 2023

Paul preaching to the Britons

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A fire-and-brimstone preacher haranguing an unhappy-looking audience. An assistant holds up a parasol to shelter him.

  • Title: Paul preaching to the Britons [graphic].
  • Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1808?]

Catalog Record

808.00.00.39+

Acquired September 2023

The faith of treaties exemplified

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“A huge bull, snorting fire, rushes with lowered head towards a French fort (left) from which cannon-balls descend upon him. Beneath the fort sansculottes on one knee fire at the bull while standing French soldiers, correctly dressed, also fire. On the fortress stand Frenchmen, firing and waving their hats; they shout: “Vive la republic, Blood & plunder, no Quarter to John Bull!” A huge tricolour flag has a staff surmounted by a skull. To the bull’s back is strapped a bundle inscribed ‘Debt Debt’. One horn has been shot off and lies on the ground. To his left hind leg is chained a heavy weight inscribed ‘Subsidies’. Nevertheless, he cries: “Now my brave Allies let us all stand firm together & make a bold push, & I’ll be Answerable for the Event.” But behind him (right) his allies have all turned their backs and are departing in directions indicated by signposts. A fat Dutchman smoking a pipe goes ‘To Amsterdam’, saying, “I care not who beats, I’ll join the Strongest Party”. Frederick William II (father-in-law of the Duke of York) walks off ‘To Berlin’, saying, “I’ve fingerd the Cash from both Sides, & will now employ it to Secure the Partition of Poland”; “Negociate with Robertspierre privately & then – Damn Relationship!!!” Next, a Spanish don, Charles IV, goes ‘To Madrid’, saying, “Whats the Bourbon Family to me when they Impede my Interest. Hush!! I am now treating for a Separate peace with that Blackguard Roberspere to Secure my own Crown – I must enlarge the Powers of the Inquisition”. On the extreme right Francis II and Mack in a two-wheeled gig, on which is the Habsburg eagle, are driving off ‘To Vienna’. The Emperor says: “Well Mack we have made a Glorious Campaign of it; of what use are the Low Countries without they continue to fill my Coffers? As for John Bull, let him settle the business as he can he loves to be meddling”.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, printmaker.
  • Title: The faith of treaties exemplified, or, John Bulls last effort to oblige his false friends [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. July 17, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, [17 July 1794]

Catalog Record

794.07.17.01+

Acquired January 2021

Pittpatche’s Requisition!? Proclamation extraordinary?

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printed textA satire on Pitt’s government suggesting his adminstration was a theatre. The layout of the sheet mimics that of a contemporary playbill.

  • Title: Pittpatche’s Requisition!? Proclamation extraordinary? Given at our Court of Pandaemonium, the seventeenth day of February, in the year of our lords, Old Nick and the King. …
  • Published: [London] : Printed for and sold by J. Bullock, [1795?]

Catalog Record 

File 53 P68 P691++

Acquired June 2019

The old English ‘squire

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Plates: The old squire — Fetching the midwife — Dressing the young squire — Young squire gets ferrul’d for neglecting his studies — Breaking cover, or Hunting in Hampshire — Tries a new shooting pony, which won’t do — Crammed at college by his tutor for a degree — Gets cheated by his miller who grinds oats for him — Young squire goes to London and gets his pockets eased — Takes lessons in dancing — Sits for his portrait — Goes to the opera — Buys an historical picture. St. Anthony preaching to the fishes — Goes to a picture sale — Rides home on a borrowed horse — Mistakes mushrooms for game and spoils their shape — Meets with a small accident — His gun misses fire, because he had forgot to load it — Goes with some friends to shoot grouse on the moors — Not the safest way to carry loaded guns in a wood — Spurs himself in the wrong place — Sees a water kelpy — The village schoolmaster, fond of little bits — A cheerful dance.

  • Author: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, author.
  • Title: The old English ‘squire : “a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free” : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.
  • Publication: London : Printed for Thomas M’Lean, 26, Haymarket, by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho, 1821.

Catalog Record 

53 C4 821

Acquired May 2019

Sporting characters

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On recto, two men walk to the left in a wood with guns. The man behind (right) holds his gun by the barrel pointed towards his companion’s posterior; he wears colored spectacles, a top hat, and is smoking a cigar. The man in front (left) looks back towards his companion as he holds his rifle by the butt, the barrel pointed over his shoulder at his companion’s face. The lines below: “I never likes to go out with a man as don’t carry his gun like a sportsman.” “Not I. I’m always wery particular.!”

On verso, a pencil drawing of two men (dustmen?) conversing as one points to the donkey that he holds by the reins.

Catalog Record 

Drawings H43 no. 1 Box D125

Acquired February 2019

The Macaroni and theatrical magazine

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Articles on fashion and manners, satirizing extremes; includes theater news and anecdotes, crime news, poetry, and a monthly register of foreign and domestic occurences, with lists of bankrupts, preferments, marriages, births and deaths. Most plates are satirical illustrations of extreme fashions and their wearers.

  • Title: The Macaroni and theatrical magazine, or Monthly register, of the fashions and diversions of the times. Conducted upon a much more elegant and liberal plan, than any other work of the kind hitherto published.
  • Published: London : Printed for the authors, and sold by John Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street, MDCCLXXII. [1772, i.e. 1773]

Catalog Record 

61 M115

Acquired October 2018

The Queen’s budget opened

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A satire on the proceedings against Queen Caroline.

  • Title: The Queen’s budget opened, or Correspondence extraordinary, the defence of Her Majesty. A companion to the “Royal letter-bag”.
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Production: Printed by J. Swan, 76, Fleet Street.
  • Publication: London : Sold by T. Dolby, 299, Strand; J. Fairburn, Broadway, Blackfriars and all booksellers, 1820.

Catalog Record

763 820

Acquired February 2016

A peep at the p*v****n

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A satire on the proceedings against Queen Caroline

  • Title: A peep at the p*v****n, or, Boiled mutton with caper sauce at the temple of joss : a satirical poem.
  • Edition: Sixth edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed by and for E. Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, 1820.

Catalog Record

763 820

Acquired February 2016