[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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Arrêté du Directoire Exécutif, qui établit un nouveau mode dans la correspondance des Autorités constituées.

Rouen: Pierre Lecomte, [1795] Broadside, 525 x 415 mm. some wear and old creases, small hole affecting a couple of letters. Broadside widely circulated on the standards for submitting official papers, addressed to ministers, departmental and municipal administrators, judges, customs officers, postal workers, etc.

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Book number: 46063

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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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[STANLEY, Lord Edward Smith- [Earl of Derby]]

At a General Meeting of the Deputy Lieutenants, for the County of Lancaster [and] At a General Meeting of the Lord Lieutenant, and Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Lancaster.

Preston, Bull Inn, 1798. 2 items. Bifolium: the first 310 x 190 mm. printed first 2 pages> the second 390 x 245 mm. printed three pages, addressed to Colonel Entwisle in ms. to final blank. John Entwisle of Foxholes in Lancashire was a Colonel of the Lancashire Militia. Resolutions of meetings of the Lieutenancy of the County of Lancaster, the second also showing detailed returns for the various divisions regarding the state of the militia> each division was obliged to provide a quota of men. The returns show figures since the previous return comprising numbers who have died, been discharged or promoted, deserted or not found, enlisted in the armed forces and supposed to be actually serving, incapacitated by illness, and those serving or balloted to serve.

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Book number: 46100

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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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[NAPOLEON]

Avis du Conseil d'État Portant que la connaissance des Ventes des Navires saisis appartient aux Tribunaux ordinaires.

Paris: Rondonneau, 1809] 4to. single leaf printed both sides. [No 656 Bulletin des Lois No. 236. A legal opinion on behalf of the Emperor Napoleon regarding the disposal of captured vessels, approved by Napoleon at Schonbrunn [sic] where he had his headquarters at the time.

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Book number: 46041

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[GEORGE JOSEPH SMITH]

The Brides in the Bath.

Felix MacGlennon, c. 1930. 4to. pp. 8> illustrations. Green wrappers, split, browned and rather fragile. George Joseph Smith [1872 - 1915] was a serial killer and bigamist, hanged for the murder of his three 'wives' who all died from drowning in the bath. Sir Bernard Spilsbury and the application of forensic pathology and detection were paramount in solving the method used in the murders. One of the "Sensation" Series and scarce. A typical cheap railway publication of the period whose poor materials and production has led to few copies surviving> this title not represented in any U.K. institution.

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Book number: 45980

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[GEORGE CRUIKSHANK?]

The Celebrated [Bell] of Lincoln's Inn Hall.

[J. King?, 1825?] Hand coloured engraving, 280 x 185 mm plate size with wide margins. A rare print attributed to George Cruikshank with the publisher's imprint in manuscript> copies located at BM and Library of Congress only. "John Bell, K. C., walks in profile to the left across a cobbled space, leaving a Gothic building, a corner of which is on the right..." Ref: Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum by Mary Dorothy George, v. 10, no. 14818.

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Book number: 46503

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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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[WILLIAM JENKIN]

Declaration of Insanity.

Manuscript, 1829. 2 items. Each 335 x 210 mm. The first, signed by John Ward, surgeon, declaring that upon examination he finds William Jenkin to be of insane mind. The second, signed by Joseph Pomery, Clerk to the Justices of the Peace, addressed to the Overseers of the Poor for the Borough of Bodmin, Cornwall, directed William Kenkin to the County Lunatic Asylum in Bodmin. Up until 1834 under the old Poor Laws, the insane were generally treated as paupers with the same needs of relief, and only in the later period were they sent to asylums where such existed. Following the new Poor Law of 1834 more asylums were built but were still mostly used for incarceration and restraint rather than treatment.

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Book number: 45946

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[ALIENS IN ENGLAND]

Declaration of an Alien, taken before me... [with] Grant to an Alien, a Provisional Licence to reside in this Kingdom.

c. 1798. 2 folio sheets, 340 x 205 mm. paper watermarked 1794, the first creased and torn at the head. During the French Revolution, Britain was drawn into the conflict along with many other continental countries in what became know as the War of the First Coalition [1792 -7]. Following this, foreigners [aliens] had to apply for permission to reside in Britain and were issued with a provisional licence. Here we have unused copies of both the Declaration [in English and French] and the Provisional Licence which was valid for one month.

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Book number: 46093

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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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