The John Johnson Collection

The John Johnson collection of printed ephemera from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, is now freely available online at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2999119~S4 It contains some 65,000 printed items produced in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and covers many different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for various entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a range of printed advertising material. The collection is a rich source of material on life in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.