[ROBERT MERRY and CHARLES BONNER]

Airs, Duetts, and Chorusses, Arrangement and Scenery, and Sketch of the Pantomime, Entitled The Picture of Paris. Taken in the Year 1790. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden.

T.C. Cadell, 1790. 8vo. pp. 20 [with half title]. Later parchment backed boards. Robert Merry [1755 - 98] was a poet and dilettante who managed to squander a considerable fortune. He was much taken with the French Revolution and spent time in Paris during 1789 and 90, following which he presumably wrote this short pantomime with the actor/manager Charles Bonner.

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Book number: 43559

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U.S.A.

American Civil War. List of Quartermaster's Stores, &c. transferred by Capt.Chas. H. Tompkins, Assistant Quartermaster, U.S. Army, to Capt. A.J. Brooker, Battery "B" 1st Com Arty. at Washington D.C.

21st April, 1864. Singles sheet, printed and manuscript both sides, 200 x 255 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. A list of horses, carts and associated tack with value and condition drawn from the stores. The minutiae of army life shown here which includes, as well as the major items of 8 horses and two wagons, the associated material including reins, whips, buckets, curry combs and horse brushes, each of which had to be accounted for.

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Book number: 41893

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[GLASGOW]

Assembly, 16th. March, 1852, Baronial Hall. No....

Glasgow, 1852. Unused ticket, 65 x 90 mm.

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Book number: 44324

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[GLASGOW]

Assembly Rooms. Admission Ticket to Mr. R.B. Hardy's Public Lecture, and Illustrations. Front Seats.

Glasgow, c. 1850. Ticket, 60 x 90 mm. R.B. Hardy published a work entitled Lectures on the Drama. First Series. Shakespeare. [Glasgow, 1834], his only publication.

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Book number: 44325

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[EDWARD OXFORD]

Attempt to Assassinate the Queen and Prince Albert.

Printed by J. Wilson, [1840] Broadside, 270 x 210 mm. laid down on card. An unrecorded street broadside. The first of eight attempts on the Queen's life. Oxford was charged with treason but found not guilty by reason of insanity. After a spell in Bethlem and then Broadmoor, he was transported to Australia in 1868 where, under an assumed name John Freeman, he married a widow and became a churchwarden. He wrote articles under the name Liber for the Melbourne Argus on the city's slums, markets and racetracks which were published as Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life [1888]. He died in 1900. The identification of John Freeman as Edward Oxford was only made in 1987 in an article by F.B. Smith, Lights and Shadows in the Life of John Freeman, published in Victorian Studies.

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Book number: 44589

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BRISTOL ELECTION 1865

Church Militant. Captain Blasphemy, a Dem Foine Fellah! (i.e. in his own opinion)

[1865] Broadside caricature, 290 x 220 mm. printed in blue, a little chipped. Possibly relating to H.F.H. Berkeley (the text relates to S.M. Peto, but the caricature doesn't resemble him)> the text is a quote from the Daily Press arguing that a vote for Peto is a vote against God. Sir S.[amuel] M.[orton] Peto (1809-1889) was a contractor for railways and public works, and M.P. for Bristol between 1865-1868. He had to resign as an M.P. after his company was involved with the insecure London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (LCDR), which led to his bankruptcy.

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Book number: 42539

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[THOMAS COOK]

Cook's Nile Services. List of Passengers by the P.S. "Egypt" Leaving Cairo March 12th 1913.

Thomas Cook, 1913. Folded illustrated card, 155 x 110 mm. a little spotted. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts.

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Book number: 41836

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W.T.D.

Eau Américaine Contre les taches de Rousseurs. La Seule Efficace connue jusqu'à ce jour.

c. 1890. Trade card, 115 x 70 mm. printed both sides, front in colour lithography. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Various weak alkaline solutions were advocated by pharmacists at this time> this is probably one of those. Manufactured by W.T.D. of New York, this is the card for a French distributor chez Deroy at Boulogne.

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Book number: 41719

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[J. SMITH]

England at One View.

B.D. Cousins, c. 1838. Large broadside 755 x 500 mm. printed on newsprint, a little browned. A statistical look at England and Wales leaning on the Parliamentary Census of 1831 and McCulloch's Statistics of the British Empire [1837]. The details given are wide ranging, separated into counties and include figures for agricultural produces, average rents, populations, etc. "Monmouthshire - Agriculture tolerable and improving. Part defended by dykes from the sea. Tillage performed chiefly by oxen - cattle good, chiefly of the Hereford breed. Mules much used. Stock of sheep 175,000 - wool packs 2,000. Average size of farms 140 acres - rent 12s 9d. Minerals coal iron, and limestone. Coal employs several thousand men, and iron about 3,000> preparation of tin 300> iron wire, 60> colours 70> shoemakers 632> tailors, 398. Contains six hundreds, 127 parishes. Returns four members - two for country, two for Monmouth..."

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Book number: 45161

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[JAMES ROBERTS after]

An Essay on Woman. Illustrated with Notes from Various Authors.

Robert Sayer, 17th October, 1772. Etched and engraved print, 335 x 225 mm. trimmed to the border and laid down. A rare satirical/allegorical literary/anatomical engraving featuring a half skeleton mirrored with a fully clothed character. Seemingly not held by any British institutions, this image exists bearing a number of imprints, we previously had one published by M. Darby and dated 1769. However this is a reverse of that image with the woman facing right, as is the copy held at Yale.

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Book number: 42011

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[HENRY BLACHFORD SHILLIBEER]

Extract from a New Farce, Lately come out, and Played with the greatest possible Success, among the Western Potwallers, called "Gaining a Footing."

Wilton: H.B. Shillibeer, printer, c. 1820. Small 8vo. pp. 8> drop head title, unbound, old reinforcing tape to left hand margin. A satire on a forthcoming election at Taunton, Somerset. "...the next thing on the list, was to see Mr. Henry Blachford Shillibeer, privately to take the state of the Burrow." The piece ends "To be continued." Shillibeer was the author of several books about Taunton published about this time so it seems reasonable to ascribe this piece to him.

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Book number: 42553

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[JAMES CRAIG]

Financial Position of the River Tyne Commission. Important Meeting of Due payers.

[Newcastle-upon-Tyne?], c. 1876. Small 8vo. pp. 13. Soiled. No wrappers, [as issued?]. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Graig, one of the Tyne commissioners, presented the report regarding the total debt of £3 million and how to finance the debt on the revenue of around £170,000 per annum. No locations traced.

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Book number: 41808

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[FABRIC LABEL]

[For Silk? with Middle Eastern scene]

c. 1850. Colour printed label, 75 x 105 mm.

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Book number: 43870

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[FABRIC LABEL]

[For silk? camel scene]

c. 1850. Die cut label printed in blue and gold, 85 x 60 mm.

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Book number: 43871

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[EDWARD OXFORD]

A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God> for His late merciful Preservation of The Queen from the atrocious and treasonable Attempt against Her Sacred Person, on Wednesday the 10th of June 1840. To be used at Morning and Evening Service, After General Thanksgiving, in all Churches and Chapels... on Sunday 21st of June... and to be continued for Thirty Days afterwards.

George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1840. Square 8vo. pp. 4. Copac lists 4 locations only. The first of eight attempts on the Queen's life. Oxford was charged with treason but found not guilty by reason of insanity. After a spell in Bethlem and then Broadmoor, he was transported to Australia in 1868 where, under an assumed name John Freeman, he married a widow and became a churchwarden. He wrote articles under the name Liber for the Melbourne Argus on the city's slums, markets and racetracks which were published as Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life [1888]. He died in 1900. The identification of John Freeman as Edward Oxford was only made in 1987 in an article by F.B. Smith, Lights and Shadows in the Life of John Freeman, published in Victorian Studies.

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Book number: 44586

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