Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++84.

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Description

Folder containing items of very large ephemera. Includes: an engraved dedication leaf ("to her most sacred majesty, Catherine the second, Empress of all the Russias...') by John Boydell (1788), Sunday Times official programme of the ceremonies for the Coronation of King William 4th and Queen Adelaide at Westminster Abbey, Sept. 8th, 1831, showing all those in the procession, satirical broadsheet, 'Plain answers to plain questions, in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte...' (printed for J. Hatchard, Piccadilly by J. Brettell, Great Windmill Street), 'The tender mercies of Bonaparte in Egypt! Britons beware by Robert Wilson (printed by T. Maiden for J. Asperne of Cornhill), engraving of the Cottonian Library copy of the Magna Carta (J. Pine, London, 1733), 'A diary and plan of the siege of Colchester, by the Parliament forces, under the command og general fairfax, 1648' (W. Keymer, Colchester), 'A chart of the histories of Rome, France, and Britain...' by Edward Ward Foster (27th ed., ca.1844), Land dispute in Godstone, Surrey (Ann, Elizabeth and Mary Evelyn and Edward and James Evelyn, 1733), 'Notificazione' by Luigi Pandolfi of the plans for the Palazzo Micciarelli in the Piazza del Duomo in Sinigaglia, 'The devil's own' (satire on a bankrupt legal firm from King's Lynn. Sold by Captain Walker, Malt Shovel inn, Fossgate, York. Post 1848), 'A view from the universe. In which the various empires... alphabetically arranged, are shown at one glance, and included in a single line... chief cities, their population, distances in British miles from London, produce, government, revenue, military and naval strength, arts and religion" (headed by an engraving of St. Peter's Square in Rome. B.D. Cousins, 18 Duke Street, London, after 1803), 'Damon's advice to Chloe: or, Darby and Joan' (W. Birmingham, printer, Dublin).

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1 box ; 64 x 86 cm.

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