General, 1810 - 1966

File — Box: 21, Folder: 4

Scope and Contents

10 pamphlets on miscellaneous topics published by UK-based presses between 1810 and 1966. Topics vary widely from a German vocabulary book to a comedic piece on English culture illustrated by the notest cartoonist Ronald Searle (1920-2011). The materials included are as follows:

Edward Stanford, Heythrop Hunt [Ordinance Map], London, undated

Speech of Lord Boringdon, In the House of Lords, London, 1810

W.H. Reed, Jr., Vocabulary of German Words and Idioms, Medford, 1912

Miles Malleson, Cranks and Commonsense, An Essay of Today, London, 1916

Hilaire Belloc, Usury, A Comment on The Crash, London, 1931

Audrey Hilton and Ronald Searle, This England, 1946-1949, London, 1949

Paul Delange, Sickert, London, 1957

John Carter, The Dry Martini, London, 1963

Arnold J. Toynbee, Janus at Seventy Five, Chatham, 1964

Raymond Lister, College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge, Cambridge, 1966

Dates

1810 - 1966

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