A scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, single sheet verse, newspaper clippings, with some manuscript materials laid in, somewhat organized topically, with material covering over a 95-year period, from the 1740s to 1838, but mostly dating from the last quarter of the 18th century. Topics included are: Gallantry, matrimony, conjurers and fortune tellers, clubs and societies, places of entertainment, spectacles such as exotic animals, curiosities of nature, freaks, etc. ; sporting events; advertisements for apparel; medical remedies and cosmetics; plays, ballets, and performances; obituaries and accounts of strange deaths; schools for gentlemen; balloon flights; puppets, mechanical inventions; comic poetry, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, ballads; jokes; accounts of ghosts and spiritual magic; auctions; religion; want ads; cooking; army recruiting; real estate; advertisements for books; strange accounts of bizarre crimes; traps; fire-fighting; accounts of the Thames; tobacco ads; shoes; public notices; election posters; fugitives from justice; wills and last testaments; lottery ads; notices relating to the Bonapartes; and other ads and reports including a print of a mummy
Description:
In English, with some entries in French., Title assigned by cataloger., Signed on inside front cover: "Beauchamp 1837.", Imperfect impression of "A view of the menagerie in the King's Private Road," with bottom half of plate missing; laid in; not digitized., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and France
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning, Beauty, Personal, Clothing and dress, Entertainment events, Freak shows, Ghosts, Lotteries, Medical instruments and apparatus, Menageries, Sports, Violent crimes, Social life and customs, and Foreign public opinion, British
Added t.-p., engraved; 20 engraved half-titles, not included in paging., Bound in 2 v. (1988 Folio 76), Eleventh edition of the "Ernestinische, Kurfürsten oder Weimarer Bibel" (first published in 1611) edited under the auspices of Ernst, duke of Saxe-Weimar by Johann Gerhard, Salomon Glass and others. cf. G. W. Panzer's Geschichte der nürnbergischen ausgaben der Bibel, 1778, p. 198, and Brit. and for. Bible soc., Hist. cat., no. 4217, note., The greater part of the engravings are by Christoph Weigel., The Illustrations Include eleven full length portraits of the dukes of Saxony, with biography on verso facing each portrait. Maps have descriptive text on versos., and Title in red and black, with vignette; text within line borders; head and tall pieces; initials.
Added t.-p., engraved; 20 engraved half-titles, not included in paging., Bound in 2 v. (1988 Folio 76), Eleventh edition of the "Ernestinische, Kurfürsten oder Weimarer Bibel" (first published in 1611) edited under the auspices of Ernst, duke of Saxe-Weimar by Johann Gerhard, Salomon Glass and others. cf. G. W. Panzer's Geschichte der nürnbergischen ausgaben der Bibel, 1778, p. 198, and Brit. and for. Bible soc., Hist. cat., no. 4217, note., The greater part of the engravings are by Christoph Weigel., The Illustrations Include eleven full length portraits of the dukes of Saxony, with biography on verso facing each portrait. Maps have descriptive text on versos., and Title in red and black, with vignette; text within line borders; head and tall pieces; initials.