In one column with a woodcut above the title.
File 763 820 N532
Acquired August 2022
A crudely printed broadside with numerous typographical errors, the text in three columns.
With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution: a crowd watching four men hang from the gallows.
File 52 T819 830+
Acquired November 2022
File 69 830 G618
Acquired November 2022
Printed in four columns. With two large woodcuts beneath the title illustrating the murder and the discovery of the body. A third, smaller woodcut depicting the burial of the victim appears in the lower right, above a poem.
The Radlett murder, also know as the Elstree murder. The victim was William Weare was murdered by John Thurtell, who owed him a gambling debt, and his accomplices Joseph Hunt and William Probert.
File 523 W362 823++
Acquired August 2022
File 763 830 Sm641
Acquired May 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
Printed in two columns. With woodcut illustration at top that depicts the chaotic scene of the execution, which took place on the day of the Magdalen Hill Fair, Winchester, in front of a huge crowd.
File 523 Ex96 829+
Acquired July 2022
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
File 763 802 B428
Acquired October 2021
File 523 Sh534 834+
Acquired February 2022
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
File 763 802 C536
Acquired October 2021