Ephemera, including: ‘A dinner given by subscription July 12, 1814’

Ephemera

Including: ‘A dinner given by subscription July 12, 1814.’, engraved invitation to the dinner event on Parker’s Piece in Cambridge, designed by R. B. Harraden; with a similar engraving: ‘Peace to the world, May 1814’, embellished in colour by hand; A collection of seven cards, featuring ms poems or epigrams and related ink and wash designs with flaps, mid-19th century; Oram (Edward) A scrap album containing early ‘ornamental stationery’ and paper embossing, embossed tradecards, silhouettes, prints and drawings, annotations, modern half cloth binding, 50 leaves, folio, Oram’s handwritten label to pastedown dated 1846; with other similar ephemera, v.s. (5)