Broadsides

Scope and Contents This is a broadside advertising an exhibition on 59, Minories, London, showing "Signor Francesco’s... extensive and magnificent collection of Royal Wax & Composition Figures". Dated in manuscript "Saturday, Decr. 1st, 1832". London: Starie, printer.The collection featured, amongst much else, an animated depiction of the dying moments of Mark Antony, an "elegant figure, in full armour, of William Wallace, the Hero of Scotland", a "striking likeness of William Shakespeare", and...

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This is an apparently unrecorded mid-19th-century broadside ballad celebrating the talents of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887). A contemporary manuscript note indicates that the broadside was published in Perth in September 1847.

Scope and Contents Bundle of printed ballads on a variety of contemporary topics. Printers imprints centre on London, and generally in the area of Seven Dials.Most items are single folios, but some are small gatherings of pages. All are printed in black ink on neutral-coloured paper. On a few occasions, colour has been added by hand to add decoration to woodcuts.One page [titled 'Dreadful shipwreck in the Channel, of the Northfleet Emigrant Ship, Loss of over 300 lives'] has a note on...

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Folio. Broadside. Uncut, with some loss to edges. Folded, with some marking and marginal tears. Inscribed at head in 19th century hand, 'Thanksgiving Peace 1814 July' and at foot 'Public worship on Thursday will begin at the usual hour...'.

On verso, the broadside bears a lengthy manuscript copy of a contemporary sermon on 'the great and public blessing of peace' beginning with the 126th Psalm and occupying the entire verso in four columns.

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This broadside is addressed toEdinburghand is dated 29 November 1720. The name Jo. Wightman, Baillie, J.P. appears at the bottom of the ordinance. There is a woodcut initial at the beginning of the text.

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Two broadsides advertising exhibitions of "animated scenery" at the Eidephusicon, Leicester Square, London. Each includes an advertisement for a view of Loch Leven representing the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Castle Lochleven, as described in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Abbot (1820).

Scope and Contents Volume containing the manuscript minutes of the West Port/Bow Yearly Society, c 1825. The minutes and accounts are largely obscured, owing to the numerous clippings and exceprts pasted in that form a scrapbook of ballads.The broadside clippings, where identified, are all printed between 1831 and 1835. Most are printed in Edinburgh, with 7 printed in Reading, England.The collator of the scrapbook is unknown, but the names of some members of the Yearly Society are...