The trials of Charles Shaw, aged 16

printed text

  • Author: ShawCharles, -1834.
  • Title: The trials of Charles Shaw, aged 16, for murdering John Oldcroft, aged 9. Richard Tomlinson for murdering Mary Evans, his sweetheart. Mary Smith, for drowning her infant child. Who all three received sentence of death, at the late Staffordshire assizes, execution last Wednesday, March 19, 1834.
  • Publication: [London] : G. Smeeton, Printer, 74, Tooley Street., [1834]

Catalog Record

File 523 Sh534 834+

Acquired February 2022

Children of discord. As sung at Sadler’s Wells

printed broadside

In one column with a woodcut above the title.

  • Title: Children of discord. As sung at Sadler’s Wells. Tune — Heart of oak.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials, [between 1802 and 1819]

Catalog Record

File 763 802 C536

Acquired October 2021

On the death of the Princess Charlotte

printed text

  • Title: On the death of the Princess Charlotte.
  • Publication: London: Printed and sold by J. Evans and Sons, Long-Lane, sold also by F. Collins, 60 Paternoster-Row; and J. Nisbet, 15 Castle-Street, Oxford-Street, [between 1817 and 1818]
  • Manufacture: London: Printed and sold by J. Evans and Sons, Long-Lane, sold also by Collins, Paternoster-Row; and Nisbet, Castle-Street, Oxford-Street.

Catalog Record

File 56 C47 817On

Acquired November 2021

The pilgrims : an allegory

printed text

  • Author: More, Hannah, 1745-1833, author.
  • Title: The pilgrims : an allegory.
  • Publication: [London] : Sold by J. Evans & Son, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts), No. 41 and 42, Long-lane, West-Smithfield; and J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly, London; by J. Binns, Bath:– and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country, [between 1813 and 1820?]

Catalog Record

61 C41 M813 P

Acquired December 2021

Wanki Fongo, or, Chief of the Yankee Doodles

printed text

A comic folk song about the wedding of Wanki Fongo Chi Chou Chu, Chief of the Yankee Doodles.

  • Title: Wanki Fongo, or, Chief of the Yankee Doodles.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials, London, [approximately 1828]

Catalog Record

File 763 828 W187

Acquired October 2021

All in one day, 4 £20,000, Octr. 5th

description below

Woodcut illustration of a hot air balloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads “No blanks”; the flag to the right, “All money.”

  • Title: All in one day, 4 £20,000, Octr. 5th … : a great variety of numbers are selling by Hazard & Co., the contractors, 93, Royal Exchange; 26 Cornhill; 324 Oxford-St., who sold three £20,000 last lottery.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1825]

Catalog Record

File 66 825 Al416

Acquired September 2021