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The Cheapside apprentice; or, The history of Mr. Francis H**** : fully setting forth the danger of playing with edge-tools : shewing also, how a gay life may prove a short one ; and that a merry evening may produce a sorrowful morning

Item is a chapbook for children covering moral and religious themes produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. Item was most likely written by Sarah More and was printed and sold by J. Marshall and S. Hazard.

A hunting piece on a new construction

Item is a satirical print by Issac Cruikshank after George Moutard Woodward, and published by S.W. Fores. The print pokes fun at English society, and contains eight scenes of English "types" hunting for various things, with lines of dialogue above the characters. An elderly man riding Pegasus pursues an allegorical figure of Fame, who beckons to him; he despairs of overtaking her, even "if my Pegasus was as fleet as the wind." Two cronies engage in "hunting the bottle" (i.e. drinking). An old military officer pursues a pretty young woman. Two bailiff's men with bludgeons pursue a debtor. A solitary poor man has been fruitlessly "hunting after money the whole day." A young and handsome fortune-hunter kneels before a rich elderly harridan. A hunter after company invites himself to crack a bottle with another man. A fat parson, eyes closed, at a set table with a second chair being empty, says: "My worthy friend the Vicar and myself have just killed old care and I am very happy Doctor, to welcome you in at the death.”

The affectionate orphans

Item is a chapbook for children covering moral and religious themes produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. Item was printed and sold by John Marshall.

Madge Blarney, the gipsey girl

Item is a chapbook for children covering moral and religious themes produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. Item was printed and sold by John Marshall.

Betty Gillis, or, Honesty rewarded

Item is a chapbook for children covering moral and religious themes produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. Item was printed and sold by John Marshall.

The wife reformed

Item is a chapbook for children covering moral and religious themes produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. Item was printed and sold by John Marshall.

Ethiopian Coptic Bible

Item is an Ethiopian Coptic manuscript Bible with an accompanying leather carrying case. The codex consists of 140 goatskin parchment leaves, with text in Ge'ez (the liturgical language of the Ethiopian church) written in red and black ink, with occasional annotations throughout. The codex is illustrated with 9 full-page illuminations in colour, and 5 decorative headpieces in black, red, and blue. The binding is in traditional Ethiopian Coptic style and features wooden boards (the back board has been crudely repaired) and a leather spine.

Palm-leaf manuscript

Item is a palm-leaf manuscript from Southeast Asia (possibly Thailand), and is likely a Buddhist text in Pali. The text is written in 5 lines, possibly in Thai script. The manuscript is bound with a cord that passes through a central hole in the leaves and the boards. Both the boards and the manuscript's accompanying display stand are made of wood and painted black with gilt decoration.

Gesaku/Gokan

File contains seven volumes of gesaku/gokan manga books created by leading artists, Ryukatei Tanekazu and Ryukatei Senka. Gesaku and gokan were an early forms of manga that consisted of cheap and humorous editions of fables, legends, epics, and romances.

Japanese woodblock printing

Series contains volumes and prints that were created using Japanese woodblock printing techniques. Woodblock printing was introduced to Japan during China's Han Dynasty but didn't become widespread in Japan until the Edo period (1603-1868). Woodblock printing became particularly popular among ukiyo-e artists. The process involved applying water-based coloured ink to relief carvings.

Series contains senso-e war prints, manga books, and an educational book for children.

Chapbook col[lection] : early 1800s

Item is a collection of thirty-three chapbooks printed by various printers and publishers in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The collection contains short stories, poems, songs, and historical accounts from the 1800s. Most of the publications were printed anonymously, but contributing authors include: Allan Ramsay and Alexander Pope.

Eliza Powell letter

Item is a letter from Eliza Powell to her brother John Cottrell, a chancery clerk residing at Lincoln's Inn, London. The letter thanks Cottrell for gifts of a gown and 32 pounds, discusses mutual acquaintances, and requests several sundry purchases.

Stratton letter

Item is a letter by a woman named Stratton rejecting a suitor who will not desist in his advances. The letter is accompanied by a typed transcription.

Miscellaneous pamphlets

Item is a collection of seven chapbooks for children by various authors, printed and published by various publishers, and bound in a single volume. Contributing authors include: Reverend T. Clark, Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, and Mary Martha Sherwood.

The flower of the city

Item is a satirical caricature of Charles Flower, the Lord Mayor of London created by Thomas Rowlandson and published by Thomas Tegg. The print depicts Flower in a portrait bust at the center of a dying sunflower, rising from a tub of rancid butter and wheels of moldy and rotten cheese. The leaves and stem of the sunflower are inscribed negative qualities such as 'pernicious', 'lecherous', 'odious', and 'narrow minded'. Below the image is an accompanying poem:

The Flow'r of the City, so gaudy and fine
'Midst proud ones the proudest was erst known to shine
It spread its gay leaves, and it shewed its rich clothes
And to all (less in consequence) turn'd up its nose!
Till a blight, a sad blight, from a Democrat wind
Struck the Sensitive Plant both before and behind
It felt the keen blast! all its arrogance fled
And the Flow'r of the City hung, hung down its head!
The Flow'r of the City, thus doom'd to despair
Droops, pines, and with wailing empregnates the air!
Tells its pride and its folly (the cause of its grief)
While the tears of repentance encumber each leaf!
But in vain in its tears, of the fate it bemoans.
The world, the base world, gives but hisses and groans!
For ever! for ever! its proud hopes are fled.
And the Flow'r of the City hangs, hangs, down its head.

Agriculture printing plate

Item is an agriculture-themed printing plate (depicting a farmhouse, windmill, cow, wheat sheaf, and seated woman holding a child) produced by Hughes & Kimber, London. Item is accompanied by a paper wrapper with a print of the plate, stamped with the numbers 87 and G29.

Manuscript sermons by the late Rev : George Lawrence, AM

Item is a book of sermons written by Reverend George Lawrence, Anglican curate of Saint Clement Danes in London for fourteen years, and lecturer at the United Parishes of All-Hallows-the-Great and All-Hallows-the-Less for thirty-four years. Saint Clement Danes is currently the central church of the Royal Air Force, while All-Hallows-the-Great and the Less have been demolished.

Western Canadiana collection

  • CA MRUASC C0014
  • Collection
  • 1812-2020, predominant 1870-1970

Collection primarily consists of published books and periodicals as well as souvenir photographs, postcards, offprints, and maps relating to the early history and exploration of western Canada.

Commerce printing plate

Item is a printing plate depicting symbols of commerce (a seated allegorical figure holding a caduceus, sailing ships, a sextant, and bales of goods) produced by Hughes & Kimber, London. The plate is accompanied by a paper wrapper featuring a printed image of the plate, stamped "19," and with the annotation "New - May 15/14 - GEs."

The boke of the introduction of knowledge

Item is a reprint of a 16th century book examining a wide variety of topics including medicine, diet, daily living, manner and customs, and geography. Item was reprinted by R. and A. Taylor.

A sketch of the row in Parliament Street

Item is a satirical print about Catholic emancipation in Great Britain. The print is by William Heath, who went by the pseudonym of Paul Pry (a nosy character in an 1825 play). It depicts British politicians John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as brawling London market women. Eldon is referred to as an "ould Orange Woman," in reference to his anti-Catholic beliefs and politics, and Wellington is referred to as “old Mother Baggs” and is shown being cheered on by a ragged, racially-caricatured Irishman, a reference to Wellington's championing of the Catholic Relief Bill. The two opposed one another in Parliament over the Catholic Relief Bill, a piece of ground-breaking legislation in 1829 that restored many rights to Roman Catholics. From 1827-1829, Heath signed his caricatures with the image of a little dandy holding an umbrella, which can be seen in the lower left corner of this print.

Funeral of the constitution

Item is a satirical cartoon published by Thomas McLean, possibly created by caricaturist Isaac Robert Cruikshank. Print depicts English conservatives Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and Robert Peel as grave diggers in a Hamlet-inspired foreground scene. The back-right depicts a funeral progression for the 1829 constitution and in the back-left shows the Pope celebrating Catholic Emancipation with monks and Irishmen. The print is a commentary on the failures of the Wellington-Peel ministry which over saw the removal of many restrictions on Roman Catholics.

John Russell correspondence

File contains correspondence related to land in the town of New Romney in Kent, and the tenants who occupied the land, whose owner may have been John Russell's employer. Correspondence is between John Russell and his likely employer, as well as Sir Edward Dering and others.

Tom, the piper's son

Item is a chapbook containing short nursery rhymes for children printed by J. Kendrew.

Alphabet and Verses

Item is a children's book containing an alphabet section followed by a series of instructive 12-page stories, poems, and vignettes. With the exception of the first poem, My Mother by Ann Taylor, the stories and poems have various unnamed authors and were originally published individually by Edward Lacey.

Mary Banks bills

File contains a collection of bills paid to and owed by the late Mary Banks of Wakefield. File also contains correspondence addressed to the executor of her estate, and an inventory of the fixtures at Monkhill House, Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

Hanna Trimwell spoof letter

Item is a spoof letter signed by Tummas Clark, School Master, Parish of Barns. Item is a a letter of recommendation for former schoolmistress Hanna Trimwell, containing intentionally poor spelling and grammar. The letter is pasted onto an album leaf; the verso features part of a poem titled "The Blue Nile," "written by Sir George."

Apology - John Brown, coachman

Item is a letter from John Brown to William Bulling, the Secretary of the Edinburgh Cemetery. The letter seems to relate to a situation wherein one of the employees of Brown's minibus company had driven irresponsibly through the cemetery. Bulling was holding Brown accountable, and in the letter Brown both offers an apology and requests one of his own, claiming he himself had done no wrong.

Diary of Harriet Rowe

Item is the diary of Harriet Rowe, detailing her daily activities which included meeting with friends, attending parties, going to chapel, and taking long walks with an individual referred to as 'G.'

An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings, from the villa to the cottage and the farm, including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings ; country inns, public houses, and parochial schools : with the requisite fittings-up, fixtures, and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens, and garden scenery : each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks

Item is a reference work intended to help improve homes and to create an appreciation of "architectural comforts and beauties." The author John Claudius Loudon was a Scottish botanist and garden designer. Item was published by Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans.

The Young Botanists

Item is botany book, written for children, that explains the main structural elements of plants.

Gassho Dojikun [combined book of children's textbook]

Item is an illustrated textbook for children from Edo Period, created by Suaraya Gensuke and six other authors. The textbook covers a wide range of topics and subjects including moral teachings, historical events, times tables, geography, reading, math, and defines important relationships such as those between a feudal lord and followers, father/son, husband/wife, and parents/children etc.

Gardening for children

Item is a book of practical gardening instructions for children, published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Russian Old Believer hymnal leaf

Item is a leaf from a hymnal created and used by the Old Believers, a religious sect that split off from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1660s after rejecting liturgical reforms. It features text in Church Slavonic (the liturgical language of the Eastern Orthodox Church), an illuminated initial, and znamenny notation, an archaic form of musical notation used by the Old Believers long after it was abandoned by the official Church in the 18th century.

Paper lace valentine

Item is an embossed paper lace valentine card with a love poem printed within. The card was manufactured by Kershaw & Son, a publisher of greeting cards between 1850 and 1880.

Edward the Black Prince, or, a tale of the feudal times

Item is an adventurous narrative of Edward the Black Prince embarking on an epic journey. This penny dreadful was originally released in 36 weekly installments costing a penny each, with each installment clearly labeled with its corresponding part number at the bottom of the opening pages. The weekly installment details are visible along the inner margins, particularly where the pages are less tightly bound.

Martha Combe letter

Item is a letter from Martha Combe, wife of prominent Pre-Raphaelite patron Thomas Combe, to an unknown recipient. Letter discusses the paper "Why a Rib," published in the journal Recreative Science: a Record and Remembrancer of Intellectual Observation. The final page of the letter is cross written.

Journal of Swiss tour 1863

A manuscript journal detailing a British tourist's trip to Switzerland, beginning in Paris and ending in Arlington, England. The party, which included Mr. Alan Lowndes, Mr. Hudson, and his daughter Sibella, toured Switzerland, as well as several locations in Italy and France.

Tours in Great Britain book no.1

Item is a bound notebook created by an unknown author. Item contains travel notes from trips to the Isle of Mann, London, North Wales, Devon, Cornwall, Yorkshire, Isle of Wright, and Ireland, among other places.

Dorian G.W. Smith fonds

  • CA MRUASC F0018
  • Fonds
  • 1864-1873, 1950-2005

Fonds documents Smith's geological and mineralogical field work, his collaboration with mineralogists and geologists around the world, and his involvement with professional associations and committees. Fonds also contains some of Smith's personal travel writings, a 19th century United Kingdom travel journal by an unknown author, lists of expenses, lists of travel arrangements, and to do lists. Fonds consists of two series: Student notebooks and Field/work/travel notes which are arranged in chronological order.

Dorian G.W. Smith

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