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16th-century costume guide
Book, Octavo, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageThis rich collection of woodcuts gives a fascinating insight into global fashions of Shakespeare’s day. With its Italian...
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A Proper New Booke of Cookery
BookA Proper New Booke of Cookery was published in 1575. The book provides recipes for a range of dishes including broths, r...
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Aesop’s Fables printed by William Caxton, 1484
Printed bookThis book contains a life of Aesop and his numerous fables, translated and printed by William Caxton in 1484 and illustr...
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Agas map showing Blackfriars precinct and its prox...
Map, ImageThis map, published in 1737, gives a ‘View of London about the Year 1560’. The Blackfriars district can be seen on the n...
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An Entertainment for Elizabeth I at Elvetham, 1591
Book, Quarto, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageThis rare pamphlet is a festival book produced to commemorate Elizabeth I’s visit to Elvetham in September 1591. It desc...
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Autograph manuscript of Ben Jonson’s The Masque of...
Manuscript, Masque Created date: 1609This is an autograph manuscript of Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queenes. The masque – featuring design or ‘invention’ by Inigo...
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Bacon’s essays on revenge, envy and deformity
Book, QuartoThis celebrated collection of essays on diverse moral and social themes was written by the great philosopher and statesm...
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Book promoting the colonisation of Ireland, 1610
Book, QuartoThis book, A Direction for the Plantation in Ulster (1610), is part of the propaganda used to promote the colonisation o...
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Boydell's Collection of Prints illustrating Shakes...
Book, Engraving, Print, Illustration, ImageIn 1789, the publisher John Boydell opened the Shakespeare Gallery, an exhibition space in London’s Pall Mall showcasing...
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Broadside ballad 'A Bill of Fare'
Broadside, EphemeraA ballad on food called ‘A Bill of Fare: For, A Saturday nights Supper, A Sunday morning Breakfast, and A Munday Dinner’...
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Broadside ballad in 'Praise of Nothing'
Broadside ballad, Ephemera, Woodcut, IllustrationThis 17th-century ballad called ‘The Praise of Nothing’ takes on the paradoxical task of making something out of nothing...
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Broadside ballad on cuckolds
Broadside ballad, Ephemera, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageThis 17th-century ballad entitled ‘Cuckolds Haven’ betrays the early modern obsession with cuckolds – men who were depic...
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Broadside ballad on the Master Constable
Broadside ballad, Ephemera, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageThis humorous 17th-century broadside ballad portrays the Master Constable as a self-important busy-body. He is exposed a...
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Broadside ballad on Tom of Bedlam
Broadside ballad, Ephemera, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageThis item is a single-sheet broadside ballad (subsequently cut in two) called ‘New Mad Tom of Bedlam or, The Man in the ...
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Broadside on Popish Plots and Treasons
Broadside, Ephemera, Print, Illustration, Image Created date: 1625This broadside celebrates the violent defeat of Catholic plots and treasons in the Protestant reigns of Elizabeth I (15...
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