Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++83.

Folder containing items of very large ephemera. Includes: John Brooks and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts proclaiming a day of public thanksgiving (1816), religion: 'Mount Calvary' (Christmas hymns and woodcuts of Jesus Christ being crucified: Taylor, printer, Brick Lane, London), 'The life & age of man, shewing the different stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave...' (2 versions: W. Birmingham, Dublin and John F. Nugent, Dublin), Mother Shipton's life & prophecies (predicting the end of the world in 1881), witchcraft: John Albert summoning the devil in Hamburgh ('The fatal book opened!': William Walker, Otley), 'Pedigree of Wingfield, of Wingfield, Letheringham, &c.' in Suffolk (family tree, 1027-1712),'The standard of weights and measures in the exchequer, anno 12. Henrici septimi' (Sumptibus Societ. Antiquaria, London, 1746), printers and printing: 'A specimen of printing types' (Alex. Wilson and Sons, Glasgow, 1783), 'A specimen of printing type, by Joseph Fry and Sons, letter-founders, Worship Street, Moorfields, London, 1785, bookselling: 'Catalogue of a bookseller's retail stock... to be sold at auction, by Joseph Leonard, no.37, Tremont Row, on Tuesday, October 19, 1847', 'Catalogue of ... books to be sold at auction without reserve, on Friday evening, May 14,1847, by Phillips & Sampson... 110 Washington Street'.