£90
Northumberland. Alnwick Items to 1881, a Victorian collection of earlier and contemporary ephemera, 121pp, tipped-in &/or pasted, comprising a late 18th/early 19th c printed bill from Andrew Henderson, Angle Inn, Alnwick, printed and inscribed with the recipient's account for breakfast, wine, brandy or rim, ale or porter, horses, hay & corn, another, similar, for Charles Turner, Queen's Head, Newcastle, an apprentice's indenture dated 1799, 1822 'advert' for Robert Finlay, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Narrowgate-Street, Alnwick, an 1817 militia summons to Robert Finlay, Junior, presumably the wine merchant's son, another Northumberland militia certificate, three albumen prints of the Mechanics' Institute's exhibition at the Alnwick Corn Exchange in 1872, an 1865 British passport, folding table of the Percy Artillery Volunteers/Strength of the Brigade for the Years 1871 and 1872, 1877 table of the 2nd Northumberland (The Percy) Artillery Volunteers, contemporary newspaper and periodical clippings mentioning The Percy Volunteers, extensive number of further clippings throughout, tls from the Duke of Northumberlan'd agent Charles R. Burnett viz. payment of rent and a tennants' dinner at Alnwick Castle, 1873 poster for the Election of Members of the Local Board of Health, for the District of the Townships of Alnwick and Canongate, 1873, a notice to the freemen of Alnwick for the aforementioned election, printed 1875 notice to the ratepayers, Alnwick Freemasons' Lodge invitation, vellum and parchment indentures, letters and other correspondence, Alnwick Mechanics' Institute Conversazione 1869, early 18th c newspaper, The Englishman's Evening Post, and Universal Advertiser (London), No. 1, Tuesday, January I. 1739-40, 2pp, further ephemera, including some advertising and 'broadsheets', etc., the whole prefixed by a partial manuscript index, contemporary green quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed, split and with some movement, marbled endpapaers, 4to
The leaves and the tipped-in pieces of ephemera, some of which have losses, are in mixed condition. The binding rubbed, split and with some movement.
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