Bute Broadsides in the Houghton Library Harvard University
- Location: McKeldin Library
Location Code & Call Number: MCK-PER Z1231.B7B76 - 1 Reel
Description
Based on the items in A List of Broadsides, and Satires, Prose, Poetical, Political, Religious, with Verses of Bellmen, etc.; Illustrative of Enqlish History and Social Life, the Property of the Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1892), this collection includes and other ephemeral material about early medicine, commerce, printinq and numerous examples of bellmen's verse.
Items are arranged in rough chronological order by Bute number.
Many of these items are unrecorded in Donald Wing's Short-title Catalogue of Books... (See Early English Books, 1641-1700). Others fall outside the scope of D.F. Foxon's Catalogue of English Poetry, 1701-1750.
The index is arranged by title in alphabetical order. The original Bute numbers are indicated.
An index by subject, form (cartoons, caricatures, etc.) and minor added entry (illustrators, translators, etc.) is added to the main index of titles. It refers only to the original Bute number, so it can be used only with the microfilm, not with the main index by title.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:
- Z1231.B7A46
- Amory, Hugh. Bute Broadsides in the Houghton Library Harvard University: A Guide and Index to the Microfilm Collection.
