Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Associated Places: Great Britain

Specimens of articles in common use

between 1840 and 1860?

Perring, John

Advertisement for hats and caps sold by John Perring, 85 Strand, London

between 1834-1845

To the diletanti [sic] and lovers of the fine arts

[1830]

Letters of administration of William Morgan

1781

Many happy returns of the day

[approximately 1880]

Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868

The paths of life

[circa 1840]

Rook, Anne

Apple story

2016

The wonders of the world

[ca. 1843]

London & North Western Railway

[1897?]

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852

The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture

1841

R. M

The Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798

1799

Wainwright and Watkins (Firm : Hereford, England)

[Bill from Wainwright and Watkins for Sir J.G. Cotterell, 1812]

1812

Reeves & Sons (London, England)

Box of pigments and implements for painting on china

ca. 1880

[The Popish Plot]

[1679?]

The particulars and inventories of the estates of the sub-governor, deputy governor, and directors of the South-sea company

1721

Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England

[1851]

Happy may they birthday be

[1880?]

Jones, Daniel (Ship chandler)

Bot. of Daniel Jones, sail maker, ship chandler

[approximately 1870?]

Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of Elizabeth Anne, Dowager Lady Dormer

1883

Dexter, Thomas E.

Animal and vegetable substances used in the arts and manufactures, illustrative of the imports and exports of Great Britain & her colonies, and explanatory of Dexter's cabinet of objects

1857

Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863

Myriorama

[1824]

Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain : in a series of above six hundred groups of small figures for the embellishment of landscape ... : the whole accurately drawn from nature, and etched

1808

Wood, Charles H., fl. 1840–1870

[Engraved shell depicting the Great Eastern steamship]

[ca. 1859]

In memory of Jane, the beloved wife of William Stead, of Sherburn

1865

C. Goodall & Son

Goodall's Royal Bezique register

[approximately 1900]

Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779

[A collection of engravings of castles, abbeys, etc. in England and Wales, by Saml. and Nathl. Buck]

1726-42

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915

H. Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915

[1919]

Boys Clothing House (London, England)

The Boys Clothing House, A.B. Joseph & Co.

[approximately 1864?]

Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847

Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria

1796-1803

Hall, Richard, (Boot maker)

Tender feet

[approximately 1851]

Rawlings, James, active 1862

Rawlings' patent boot and shoe cleaning machine

1862?

Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people

[approximately 1850]

Henderson, F. (Clothier)

[Billhead of F. Henderson, clothier & outfitter, recording purchases by Mr. G. Duncan, Imperial Hotel, 1888]

1888

A tribute to beautiful love!

1844

Sansom, Francis, active 1784–1799

Pigmy revels, or, All alive at Lilliput

1800-1801

Sinclair, George, 1786–1834

Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey

MDCCCXXV [1825]

The language of flowers

[approximately 1860]

To be disposed of

[approximately 1850]

By penning these misc lines, to prove a pledge of my unceasing love ..

mid-19th century

Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828

History of British birds

1797-1804

Happy families

[186-?]

Albert Boot and Shoe Warehouse (London, England)

George McKoen, maker of the celebrated French calf side-spring boots at 12/6, equal to bespoke, Albert Boot and Shoe Warehouse

[mid 19th century]

J. Somalvico & Co

Newly invented portable walking-stick telescope

[between 1842 and 1850]

J.S. Fry & Sons

Chocolate box by J.S. Fry & Sons, with photograph of Lily Elsie

ca. 1909

Sallis, William, 1782–1865

Sallis's comic play grammar

[ca. 1850?]

May mutual loves count us blest

mid-19th century

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674

The history of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641

1702-1704

Crosse & Blackwell

[1876?]

St. Helens (Clifton, Bristol)

Bill for school expenses for Miss Mason at St. Helens School, Clifton, Bristol

1884

Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747

Drawings of houses and gardens

1736-1743

E. & S.R. Richards

Billheads recording clothing purchased by Robert W. Stevenson from E. & S.R. Richards, clothiers, London

1891

Memento mori ring

1689

Dummer, Edmund, -1712

A survey and description of the principal harbours

1698

Game of the star-spangled banner,

[between 1842 and 1845]

A gentleman's park dissected

18--]

A correct plan and elevation of the famous French raft

Feby. 1st 1798

Photogram of ferns

1860s?

Neville, Alexander, 1544–1614

Alexandri Nevylli Angli De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto duce, liber vnus

1575

Constant as the sun in heaven above, this heart that thou has won will be to see in love

mid-19th century

Boazio, Baptista

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes

[1589?]

T. Daft & Son (Birmingham, England)

T. Daft & Son, manufacturers of metallic hot-houses and every description of horticultural buildings

approximately 1850

A full & true account of a pleasure party to Rockingham in 1817 by C.R., illustrated by J.P

1817?

Coles, Frederick Rhenius, 1853 or 1854–

This book contains drawings of marine shells (from Forbes & Hanley) generally considered as specially British

1884

Crane, Walter, 1845–1915

The Graphic

[1876?]

Bonnell, Mandy

The second life of shells

2001

Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book

1793

Porter, John, fl. 1445–1485

John Porter manuscript

circa 1450

Smallwood, B.

Billhead of B. Smallwood, London haberdasher, for purchase of ribbon by an unidentified buyer

180-?

Godfreys, Amy, active 1879

Bills for school expenses for Miss Gleason, to be paid to Amy Godfreys, Vernon Street, Derby

1878-1879

Wellington

1852

In sorrowing remembrance of Jessie, wife of Horace Hart

1871

This small tribute, dearest, take keep it for thy lovers sake ..

mid-19th century

Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921

Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens

1879-1880

Seebohm, Henry, 1832–1895

Henry Seebohm ornithological notebook and diary

1860-1866

Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879

A record of the Black Prince

1849

La Fontaine in the game of the goose

[ca. 1810]

Hume, David, 1711–1776

The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688

1806

Coq d'Or (London, England)

Carte du jour

1955

By Her Majesty's command, Frogmore House & gardens to be shown to Miss Smith & her party

between 1792 and 1818?

Anti-Corn Law League

[Campaign card advertising the free trade movement, and the Free Trade Star]

[approximately 1844]

Lawrence & Co. (London, England)

Lawrence & Co.'s cheap clothing establishment

[not before 1882]

Pollard, G.

Letter

1928 April 13th

Affidavit certifying the burial in wool of Mary Harvey of Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire

1680 April 1

Ralfe, James, active 1820–1829

The naval chronology of Great Britain, or, An historical account of naval and maritime events, from the commencement of the War in 1803, to the end of the year 1816

1820