Racist image showing a Black man delivering a lecture, standing in front of a large image, with a bust of a Black man with a label "Julius Caesar". With text using dialect
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Title from text above image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Lithographic image with accompanying text in letterpress below, on a broadside., Letterpress text below image begins: Genelem ob colour, on gibbin' some account ob de Roman inwasion ..., and Text in upper right corner of sheet, following series statement: To be continued.
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Published at Wm. Follit's Old Established Economic Carving and Gilding Establishment, 63, Fleet Street
List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757
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Caption title., At head of title, in upper left: Norfolk., Not in ESTC., and Signed beneath printed text by "Israel Long Esq., Sheriff". Contemporary ms. annotations in black ink along left margin of recto; docket title added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Date of publication from ESTC., First line of text: "The Right. Hon. the Speaker -"., In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by a rule., Refers to Mr. Wilkes's 'History of England', vol. 1 of which was published in 1768, and to "Sermons for young women, in 2 vol. 12mo.", which may be a reference to James Fordyce's collection, which went into a large number of editions in 1766 and 1767., A selection of statements on contemporary events, made ridiculous by their association with other events., Mounted on leaf 35. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Satirical handbill offering a reward for the apprehension of the "said Coachman," said by Narcissus Luttrell to be an attack on Sir Robert Walpole. and Ms. notes (unidentified calculations) on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Date of publication from internal evidence: a reference to the modern lady reading "Hoyle", presumably one of Edmond Hoyle’s books on whist or another game, the first of which was published in 1742., Text in two sections: "Lady in Q. Elizabeth's time" and "Modern fine lady". First line begins: "Five o'clock.--Get up an hour sooner than usual"., Possibly a fragment or detached from larger work., In two columns with title centered above both; columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 14. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
A joke letter; at end is added: "From such examples as of this and that, we are all taught to know - I know not what"., In this edition the title is in two lines; the first line reads "William having received a letter"; the last two paragraphs are set in smaller type than the rest, clearly in order to fit the page., First line: "Sir. William having received a letter", In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by rules. In this edition the title is in two lines., Oliver Puzzle-cause is a pseudonym., Below signature in second column: Price three half-pence., Mounted on leaf 59. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
