Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
[Collection of about 300 broadside ballads
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
15 ballads on 12 broadsides (1 mounted), most with engraved head-pieces or minor illustrations. Without the music. Chiefly English, but includes some Scottish and American ballads. The majority are printed in London, with two printed in Newcastle and Birmingham, respectively. The ballads appear to range in date from the early 1800s to the 1850s. Those which reference specific events: Queen Victoria's 1840 wedding to Prince Albert, referenced in no.10; political references to the Corn Laws (no.3), Derby and Disraeli's tax legislation (no.4), and the state visit of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie in 1855 (no.5) date most of the material to the 1840s-1850s. Includes social topics such as cuckoldry, death and crime. The blackface minstrelsy tradition is also represented (no.3 and 11).
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Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
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