Ephemera from Zetetic Books

Worcester: S. Gamidge and W. Pendrill, 1756. Single sided engraved broadside, approximately 265mm x 380mm (engraving), 335 x 450 (Frame). Lightly soiled, surface abrasion towards head on the left hand side, but not affecting image, several small worm holes, but again not affecting image or text. Vignette to head showing Penderel holding a billhook in the foreground, with the king… Read more about this item

Leicester: No Publisher Single sided printed ticket, approximately 170mm x 125mm in size, no date (after 1850). Couple of spots to reverse where once mounted, otherwise quite bright and clean. Ticket for admittance to view Landseer's 'A Dialogue at Waterloo', made out to a Mr E. Loseby, and to be viewed at T.[homas] Chapman Browne's Bible and Crown premises in… Read more about this item

London: Edward Orme and J. Nichols, 1806. Three items relating to the death and funeral of Nelson. 1. 'Description of the Picture and Print Representing the Death of Lord Viscount Nelson, in the Battle Off Trafalgar', published by Edward Orme, and printed by J. Nichols, n.d. but probably c.1806, broadside, approximately 470mm x 295mm in size. Lightly browned and soiled,… Read more about this item

London: No Publisher, 1840. Single sided printed leaflet, approximately 225mm x 140mm in size. Small amount of loss to left hand margin, lightly browned, otherwise clean. Date is from the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian. Exhibition announcement for a model imitation of the illumination of St. Peter's in Rome during holy week, when paper lanterns were set alight simultaneously… Read more about this item

London: No Publisher, 1771. Single sided engraved broadside, approximately 245mm x 380mm in size. Browned, lightly creased, and lightly foxed, small split to left hand edge, a couple of small spots of dirt, chipped to edges with small amounts of loss, a couple of tiny holes to centre, just catching a couple of the 'o's in 'of', but without loss… Read more about this item

Abertillery: W. R. Haylings [Printer], 1901. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 255mm x 380mm in size. Unevenly browned to edges (where once mounted), a couple of small tears to right hand side, small nick to head. An apology, printed at the expense of a James Woodward, a miner who had been sleeping with a lighted lamp, which went against the… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford A.N.L. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 210mm x 295mm in size, n.d. c.1980? Slightly creased from old folds, very minor soiling, but generally quite bright and clean. Published by the Oxford Anti-Nazi League, to be sung to the tune of 'Bread of Heaven', "in which it is explained that there is just one murderer in the police force… Read more about this item

London: J. Pitts Single sided printed broadside, approximately 245mm x 365mm in size, n.d. but c.1820. Slightly chipped and creased to edges, lightly browned, a couple of small spots, but generally quite clean. Double column, with attractive border. Relates the dream of a seaman called James Covey, who, two weeks before the battle of Camperdown with the Dutch fleet, had… Read more about this item

Exeter: Flindell [Printer] Single sided printed broadside, approximately 175mm x 220mm in size, n.d. c.1820? Quite bright and clean. The full title is 'Wanted Immediately, Many Thousands, to Pay Off Old Scores and New Ones. For Which Purpose an Auction Will be Held of All That Inn Famous Concern, Situate in Bampfylde-Lane, at the Sign of the Great Cann, in… Read more about this item

Exeter: Cullum [Printer], 1825. 4pp. Lightly browned, upper portion of last page browned, creased from old folds where once sent through the post, with address and ink stamp to bottom portion of last page, and date and note in ink to fore edge margin of upper part of last page. The printer was probably Robert Cullum, see the BBTI. Proposal… Read more about this item

Exeter: S. Hedgeland [Printer], 1820. Single side printed broadside, approximately 210mm x 335mm in size. Lightly creased, with some minor offsetting, small tear to foot, but generally quite bright and clean. Political satire relating to the Cato Street conspiracy dressed as a shipping news announcement. The boat, 'Revolutionaire' is suffering from dry-rot, "owing to her principal Supporters being of 'Thistle-wood',… Read more about this item

Exeter: Moon [Printer], 1818. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 220mm x 280mm in size. Lightly browned, lightly creased, worn to old folds with loss to a couple of letters of text, but with no loss of sense. The printer was [John] Moon of Exeter. Unrecorded broadside, seemingly complaining about a retirement home for dissenting clergy being built in Exeter, noting… Read more about this item

London: J. Asperne, 1803. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 190mm x 315mm in size. Lightly browned, slightly creased from old folds, top right corner with small amount of loss, a few remnants of paper to reverse where once mounted and a previous owner's name in pen to reverse, but generally clean. The printer was J.[ames] Asperne, at the 'Bible, Crown,… Read more about this item

Beccles: R.B. Jarman [Printer] Single sided printed leaflet, approximately 185mm x 220mm in size, n.d. but probably c.1830. Lightly browned, stained, with top left hand corner missing, vertical paper flaw affecting a few letters but with no loss of sense. Anti-'Swing' leaflet, decrying the breaking of threshing machines and the burning of barns and corn stacks. "If you burn my… Read more about this item

London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1831. Single sided broadside, approximately 440mm x 570mm in size. Chipped to extremities with some loss to margins, creased from old folds, with minor loss to the middle of a few words of a sentence in the centre ('appeared and broken out'), but with no loss of sense. Extensive Japanese tissue repairs to reverse,… Read more about this item

Salisbury: James Bennett [Printer] Two single sided printed broadsides, approximately 255mm x 320mm in size. Lightly browned and very lightly creased, but generally quite bright and clean. Relating to the Sebastopol Committee of 1855, relating to the condition of the British Army in Crimea. The Radical M.P. John Arthur Roebuck led calls for an inquiry into the state of the… Read more about this item

London: Printed By P. Hondy for W. Byers Single sided printed broadside, approximately 230mm x 345mm in size, n.d. but 1820. Lightly browned and lightly creased, a couple of small holes to text catching letters but with no loss of sense, three words replaced in neat manuscript to first line of text, and date added beneath second column of title,… Read more about this item

London: Balne [Printer], 1836. Single sided printed hand bill, approximately 95mm x 265mm in size. Browned, trimmed quite closely, some creasing and a couple of tiny nicks. The printer was probably [Giles] Balne (fl.1799-1838) of Gracechurch Street, London (BBTI). The 'Mr. Green' was almost certainly Charles Green (1785-1864), a professional balloonist between 1821 and 1840, this being his two hundred… Read more about this item

London: Pardon and Son, 1869. Double sided, lithographed ticket for the opening ceremony of Bunhill Fields cemetery, approximately 270mm x 190mm in size. Front with one or two tiny spots of foxing but is generally quite bright and clean, reverse with remnants of glue from once being stuck in an album, with some light discolouring and surface abrasion, but not… Read more about this item

Paris: Firmin Didot, 1836. Printed certificate, edges mounted on linen which is stretched and pinned over a light wood bearer, approximately 365mm x 260mm in size. Heavily browned, slightly chipped to edges, lightly foxed with ink spot towards the right hand edge, some writing in pencil to reverse. Early, the Society was formed in 1830, membership certificate, for a Mr.… Read more about this item