Indexes by theme
This is a list of the broad headings of the John Johnson Collection with links to their indexes in PDF format (where available).
To check whether the heading(s) which interest you have been catalogued and/or digitised, consult the list of catalogued and digitised sections.
Advertising
Advertising is one of the largest and most varied of the main sections of the John Johnson Collection, with 58 subject headings from Advertisers (wrappers of magazine which, normally discarded when the journals were bound, carry advertisements for products and books) to Women's Clothes and Millinery.
Most of this section has been digitised for the JISC-funded ProQuest project The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera.
The Art of Advertising exhibition (2020 – 2021), which showcased a selection of this material, can be browsed online.
Advertisers
Auctions
Bazaars and Sales (PDF 96kb)
Beauty Parlour (PDF 143kb)
Boots and Shoes (PDF 225kb)
Calico Printing
Cocoa, Chocolate and Confectionery (PDF 122kb)
Cookery and Household (PDF 11kb)
Dentistry (PDF 46kb)
Electricity and Electrical Appliances
Fire Grates and Cooking Ranges (PDF 114kb)
Fire-Fighting Appliances (PDF 44kb)
Food (PDF 238kb)
Fortnum and Mason
Fuel (PDF 46kb)
Gas and Gas Appliances (PDF 73kb)
Gramophones (PDF 98kb)
Harrods
Hats (PDF 126 kb)
Housing and Houses
Iron Foundries and Machinery (PDF 46kb)
Ironmongery (PDF 93kb)
Lotteries (PDF 194kb)
Men's Clothes (PDF 138kb)
Moveables, Advertisements
Musical Instruments (PDF 89kb)
Office Equipment (PDF 6kb)
Oil and Candles (PDF 97kb)
Oil Lamps and Stoves (PDF 106kb)
Oxford Trade Pamphlets (PDF 308kb)
Patent Medicines (PD 303kb)
Pottery and Transfer Printing
Publicity (PDF 11kb)
Sales by Private Contract (PDF 25kb)
Scientific Instruments (PDF 47kb)
Sewing Cottons and Machines (PDF 122kb)
Shell Mex
Silver, Jewellery etc (PDF 47kb)
Soap (PDF 310kb)
Soft Drinks (PDF 77kb)
Tea and Coffee (PDF 122kb)
Tea and Grocery Papers
Television (PDF 5kb)
Tobacco (PDF 101kb)
Trade Shows (PDF 5kb)
Umbrellas and Trunks (PDF 96kb)
Watches and Clocks (PDF 46kb)
Window Bills and Advertisements (PDF 53kb)
Wines and Spirits (PDF 92kb)
Wireless (PDF 12kb)
Women's Clothes & Millinery (PDF 167kb)
The following sections are not digitised:
- Advertisers
- Auctions
- Building Estates
- Calico Printing
- Church Furnishings
- Cookery and Household
- Electricity and Electrical Appliances
- Fortnum and Mason
- Gramophones
- Horticulture
- Hotels
- Housing and Houses
- Liberty
- Moveables
- Musical Instruments
- Office Equipment
- Pewter
- Pottery
- Publicity
- Sales by Public Contract
- Scientific Instruments
- Shell Mex
- Silver
- Television
- Trade Catalogues
- Trade Shows.
Art and Architecture
This small section represents the sections which are devoted to art and architecture. Art, especially illustration and commercial and graphic art, can be found throughout the collection. An online guide is in preparation.
You can search our online catalogue and the ProQuest resource The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera by name of artist, by date, and also by the subject of illustration. We use the following iconographic indexing tools: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials and Iconclass.
(See also Artists' Invitations.)
- Art and Architecture (PDF 99kb)
- Building Estates (PDF 128kb)
- Church Furnishings (6kb)
- Church Restoration (PDF 69kb)
- Churches
- Exhibition Catalogues (PDF 11kb)
- Exhibitions (PDF 8kb)
- Furniture (8kb)
- Great Exhibition (PDF 87kb)
- Historical Buildings, Sites etc (PDF 92kb)
- Housing and Town Planning (PDF 45kb)
- Siam, National Exhibition
Artefacts
John Johnson collected three-dimensional artefacts, which complement the two-dimensional ephemera.
- Beauty Parlour
- Fans
- Food and Drink
- Games and Toys
- Great Exhibition
- Household
- Medals, Badges and Flags
- Patent Medicines
- Photographic
- Playing Cards and Card Games
- Sewing and Fancy Work
- Stationery
- Watches, Clocks and Jewellery
- Wireless and Gramophone
- Wood and other artefacts from the JJ Collection at OUP
Artists
Art, especially illustration and commercial and graphic art, can be found throughout the collection. An online guide is in preparation.
You can search our online catalogue and the ProQuest resource The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera by name of artist, by date, and also by the subject of illustration. We use the following iconographic indexing tools: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials and Iconclass.
(See also Artists' Invitations.)
Artist (The) (PDF 4kb)
Artists' Invitations
Austen (John) (PDF 47kb)
Barnard (Frederick) (PDF 5kb)
Barnes (R) (PDF 6kb)
Batten (John D)
Baxter (G) (PDF 48kb)
Beardsley (Aubrey) (PDF 110kb)
Bell (R Anning)
Bewick (Thomas) (PDF 150kb)
Book Illustrations (PDF 55kb)
Buday (George)
Burghers (M)
Burne-Jones (Edward) (PDF 117kb)
Caldecott (Randolph)
Craig (Gordon)
Crane (Walter)
Crawhall (Joseph) (PDF 95kb)
Cruikshank (George) (PDF 100kb)
Dalziel Brothers
Doyle (R) (PDF 181kb)
Du Maurier (George)
Edwards (ME) (PDF 91kb)
Eltze (PDF 6kb)
Fraser (Frances)
Fraser (Lovat) (PDF 187kb)
Freedman (Barnett) (PDF 191kb)
Geckie (W) (PDF 5kb)
Gillray (James)
Gould (FC) (PDF 102kb)
Graham (T) (PDF 5kb)
Gray (P) (PDF 87kb)
Green (C and T) (PDF 89kb)
Greenaway (Kate)
Hailing (Thomas)
Hassall (Joan) (PDF 200kb)
Hassall (John) (PDF 56kb)
Havinden (Ashley) (PDF 4kb)
Hogarth (William) (PDF 187kb)
Holbein Borders
Hollar (W) (PDF 250kb)
Hood (Thomas) (PDF 167kb)
Hopkins (A)
Horsley (John Calcott)
Houghton
Hughes (E)
Hunt (W Holman) (PDF 115kb)
Illustrators Misc.
Jackson (J B)
Jewitt (Orlando)
Keene (C)
Laurie and Whittle
Lawless (Matthew James)
Lawson (George Anderson)
Leech (John) (PDF 269kb)
Leighton (Clare) (PDF 271kb)
Leighton (John) (PDF 48kb)
Linton (W J)
Maclise (D) & Mearns (PDF 43kb)
Martin (John) (PDF 5kb)
Marx (Enid) (PDF 14kb)
May (Phil) (PDF 135kb)
McKnight Kauffer (PDF 117kb)
Millais (John)
Mulready (PDF 5kb)
Nash (J and P) (PDF 7kb)
New (E H) (PDF 117kb)
Onwhyn (PDF 89kb)
Pettie (John)
Phiz (Hablot K Browne)
Pinwell (G J) (PDF 40kb)
Poynter (E J) (PDF 58kb)
Pritchett (R T)
Rembrandt
Rossetti (D G) (PDF 68kb)
Rowlandson (Thomas)
Rutherston (Albert) (PDF 197kb)
Sandys (Frederick) (PDF 188kb)
Small and Staniland
Solomon (Simeon) (PDF 92kb)
Stanfield
Stone (AR) (PDF 113kb)
Stothard (Thomas)
Tenniel
Thompson (Hugh)
Tintoretto (PDF 6kb)
Upton (FK and B)
Walker (Francis and Fred) (PDF 91kb)
Watson (JD) (PDF 89kb)
Whistler (Rex)
Whittingham (Charles)
Wright (Buckland)
Authors
Although some sections of the collection are devoted to authors, many of these, except for Dickens and Shakespeare, are small sections. There are many other references to authors, notably in Prospectuses of books and journals, both of which have been catalogued and digitised for the JISC-funded ProQuest project The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera. Playwrights and authors whose works have been dramatised can also be found in the Entertainment section, again with digital images on the ProQuest site. Records (only) for items on the ProQuest site are available through our online catalogue.
Andersen (Hans C) (PDF 68kb)
Austen (Jane) (PDF 96kb)
Author (The)
Authors, Various (PDF 291kb)
Beerbohm (Max) (PDF 62kb)
Belloc (Hilaire) (PDF 78kb)
Blake (William)
Borrow (George Henry) (PDF 101kb)
Bronte Family (PDF 58kb)
Browne (Sir Thomas) (PDF 13kb)
Browning (Robert) (PDF 56kb)
Burns (Robert) (PDF 100kb)
Byron (PDF 92kb)
Carroll (Lewis) (PDF 120kb)
Chesterton (G K) (PDF 104kb)
Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel) (PDF 108kb)
Cowper (William) (PDF 110kb)
De Morgan (William) (PDF 43kb)
Dibdin (T F) (PDF 70kb)
Dickens (Charles)
Doyle (Conan) (PDF 104kb)
Eliot (George) (PDF 45kb)
Fitzgerald (Edward) (PDF 59kb)
Galsworthy (John) (PDF 59kb)
Hardy (Thomas)
Housman (AE) (PDF 170kb)
Irving (Washington) (PDF 89kb)
Johnson (Samuel) (PDF 296kb)
Joyce (James) (PDF 9kb)
Kipling (Rudyard) (PDF 220kb)
Lamb (Charles) (PDF 271kb)
Lawrence (DH) (PDF 197kb)
More (Hannah) (PDF 198kb)
Nonsense illustrated (PDF 111kb)
Reade (Charles)
Ruskin (John)
Scott (Sir Walter)
Shakespeare (PDF 123 kb)
Shaw (George Bernard) (PDF 123kb)
Shelley (PB)
Sitwells, The (PDF 77kb)
Stevenson (R L) (PDF 89kb)
Swinburne (Algernon Charles) (PDF 102kb)
Tennyson (Alfred) (PDF 199kb)
Thackeray (WM) (PDF 292kb)
Trollope (Anthony) (PDF 208kb)
Wilde (Oscar)
Wordsworth (William) (PDF 54kb)
Books
John Johnson collected books, maps and music as well as ephemera. Some books were kept within boxes in the collection, either with ephemera or as collections of (often small) books. For books to be findable through Oxford University's online library catalogue (SOLO), they have been removed from the ephemera collection and housed with Johnson books.
This is the case with Chapbooks, Children's Books, Miniature and small books, Moveable books, Penny Awfuls, Penny Dreadfuls, and Song Books. Additionally, books have been removed from Private Presses and from Sex, Population and Eugenics. Lists of such books (where available) will be posted on this page.
Indexes to those sections kept with the collection are linked below.
Albert Smith and Horace Mayhew (PDF 105 kb)
Chapbooks
Children's Books (PDF 568kb)
Christmas Books (PDF 48kb)
Japanese Silk Books
Miniature and Small Books
Moveable Books (PDF 87kb)
Nonsense Illustrated (PDF 111kb)
Novels in Parts (PDF 165kb)
Oriental Books
Pamphlets of 1871
Penny Awfuls (PDF 44kb)
Song Books
Titles
Valentine Writers - Xeroxes
Book Trade and Publishing History
Work is in progress on the Book Trade sections of the John Johnson Collection. Many book trade trade cards and circulating library labels are catalogued and digitised on the John Johnson online catalogue. Most book jackets are also catalogued (without images).
Post-1801 prospectuses of journals and books and the volume of Trade Sale catalogues (auctions of copyrights, 1718 – 1797) have been catalogued, and digital images are available on the ProQuest site: The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera.
Pre-1801 prospectuses are available on microfiches (see record below) and can be found at M07.F06828 and on the open shelves of the Special Collections Reading Room at R6.201 and Upper Reading Room at A.3.828. There are companion microfiches for pre-1801 prospectuses in the Gough Collection.
Bibliography (PDF 6kb)
Book Clubs
Bookjackets (PDF 190kb)
Booksellers' Trade Catalogues (PDF 399kb)
Book Trade
Book Trade Documents
Circulating Libraries and Book Clubs
Circulating Library Catalogues
Circulating Library Labels
Copper Plates for Bookplates
Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias (PDF 39kb)
Libraries (PDF 7kb)
Proposals and Prospectuses (PDF 24kb)
Prospectuses (Books) (PDF 63kb)
Prospectuses (Books) Pre-1801
Prospectuses of Journals (PDF 245kb)
Publishers' Catalogues (PDF 332kb)
Stationers' Company (PDF 48kb)
Titles (PDF 126kb)
Trade Sale Catalogues
Educational
- Alphabets
- Battledores (PDF 56kb)
- Education (Educational) (PDF 154kb)
- Exercise Books
- Mechanics' Institutes (PDF 119kb)
- Music Books
- Shorthand and Phonetics
Entertainment
The Entertainment section is divided into theatres, arranged chronologically within venue, and other forms of entertainment, arranged by genre.
Most of our theatre material was catalogued for the Backstage Project. This resource is no longer online, but our records are available through our online catalogue. We subsequently digitised all our 18th century Entertainment material for an Oxford Digital Library Project 18th century Entertainment Ephemera, now available on Digital Bodleian.
We have recently completed cataloguing and digitisting our 19th century Entertainment ephemera for the JISC-funded ProQuest project.
Actors, Actresses and Entertainers (PDF 70kb)
Animals on Show (PDF 48kb)
Aquarium Programmes (PDF 269kb)
Ballet (PDF 37kb)
Cinema (PDF 68kb)
Circuses (PDF 189kb)
Concert Bills (PDF 240kb)
Concerts (PDF 240kb)
Dance Programmes (PDF 42kb)
Dancing
Dioramas (PDF 143kb)
Entertainments (PDF 42kb)
Fairs and Festivals (PDF 114kb)
Festival of Britain (PDF 297kb)
Fireworks (PDF 6kb)
Humans (PDF 101kb)
London Play Places (PDF 142kb)
Lyceum Theatre
Magic and Mystery (PDF 72kb)
Miniature Theatre (PDF 16kb)
Minstrels (PDF 101kb)
Museums
Music (PDF 6kb)
Music Titles (PDF 120kb)
Musicians and Opera Singers (PDF 149kb)
Pageants (PDF 141kb)
Pantomimes
Performances in Royal Residences (PDF 58kb)
Playbills
Playbills on Silk
Programmes (PDF 5kb)
Puppetry
Saloons and Taverns (Playbills) (PDF 24kb)
Theatre Companies
Theatre Periodicals
Theatre, Foreign
Theatre, London
Theatre, Oxford
Theatre, Provinical
Theatre, Suburban
Theatrical Misc
Theatrical Souvenirs
Waxworks (PDF 129kb)
Form
Although most of the John Johnson Collection is arranged by subject, several sections contain various forms or genres of ephemera. These are listed below. There is, of course, significant overlap between subject and form. Labels, for example, are arranged by the products they were created for, which in turn are represented in the Advertising sections.
Conversely we assign genre terms to everything we catalogue, using a variety of thesauri.
Address Labels (PDF 5kb)
Albums
Almanacks
Almanacks - Oxford (PDF 23kb)
Bank Notes
Bellman's Verses
Bill-Headings (PDF 166kb)
Blank Forms (PDF 67kb)
Blotters
Book Plates
Bookmarkers (PDF 287kb)
Box Lid Designs (PDF 4kb)
Broadsides (PDF 344kb)
Calendars (PDF 101kb)
Calling Cards (PDF 43kb)
Carols
Cartes de Visite
Cartouches, Blanks, Borders
Certificates (PDF 93kb)
Christmas Cards (PDF 14kb)
Christmas Cards - Trade (PDF 6kb)
Cigar Bands
Cigarette Cards
Comic Sheets
Compliment Slips
Copper Plates for Paper Bags
Crests and Arms (PDF 32kb)
Cut Paper
Daguerrotypes
Diaries (PDF 98kb)
Double Crown Club (menus)
Duty Stamps
Elegies
Embroidery Patterns (PDF 7kb)
Engraved and Printed Fans
Envelopes (PDF 14kb)
Fans
Greetings Booklets (PDF 31kb)
Greetings, General
Hieroglyphic Letters (PDF 340kb)
Initial Letters (PDF 9kb)
Invitations
Japanese Paper Souvenirs (PDF 111kb)
Labels (PDF 1671kb)
Maps
Match Booklets
Match Box Labels
Match Boxes
Menus (PDF 139kb)
Music Titles
Note Headings
Orange Papers (PDF 58kb)
Paper Bags (PDF 59kb)
Passports (PDF 25kb)
Penmen (PDF 27kb)
Photographic General (PDF 51kb)
Photographs
Playing Cards
Posters
Pro Formas, Pre-1700
Questionnaires
Receipts (PDF 29kb)
Rhyme Sheets (PDF 306kb)
Sachets
Scrap Album, The (PDF 84kb)
Scraps (PDF 68kb)
Silhouettes (PDF 5kb)
Song Sheets (Christ's Hospital)
Songsters
Stamp Posters (PDF 45kb)
Stationery (PDF 7kb)
Stencils
Street Ballads (PDF 98kb)
Tickets (PDF 148kb)
Tinselling
Tobacco Papers
Trade Cards (PDF 23kb)
Tradesmen's Lists
Valentine Cards (PDF 98kb)
Valentine Mounts
Wafers
Watch Papers
Window Bills
Window Pictures and Transparencies
Writing Masters
Pastimes
- Fancy Work
- Games
- Indoor Games (PDF 150kb)
- Indoor Games and Dancing (PDF 95kb)
- Crochet Patterns (PDF 87kb)
- Lace
- Medleys Cross Readings (PDF 5kb)
- Potichomania (PDF 8kb)
- Pressed Flowers
- Puzzles, Conundrums, Games (PDF 9kb)
- Sand Pictures
- Transfers
Periodicals
John Johnson collected first and special numbers of journals. There are no online indexes to these, but individual titles can be found from a handlist. Please consult the Librarian for assistance.
Annuals (PDF 52kb)
Christmas Numbers, Misc
Christmas Numbers, The Graphic
First Numbers, Academic
First Numbers, Advertising
First Numbers, Annuals, Quarterlies, Fortnightlies
First Numbers, Antiquarian
First Numbers, Arts & Crafts & Collecting
First Numbers, Boy's Papers
First Numbers, Comic
First Numbers, Country Life
First Numbers, Education
First Numbers, Fashion
First Numbers, Foreign
First Numbers, Health
First Numbers, House Journals of the Trade
First Numbers, Juvenile
First Numbers, Local
First Numbers, Magazines
First Numbers, Mainly Oxford
First Numbers, Money and City
First Numbers, Monthlies
First Numbers, Music
First Numbers, Naval and Military
First Numbers, Novelettes
First Numbers, Photography
First Numbers, Poetry
First Numbers, Political
First Numbers, Printers' Journals
First Numbers, Publicity
First Numbers, Religion
First Numbers, Sport
First Numbers, Sunday Papers
First Numbers, Theatre and Film
First Numbers, Trades and Professions
First Numbers, Weeklies
First Numbers, Womens
Great War (Includes 2nd World War)
Magazines in Wrappers, Various 18thc
Miniature Newspapers
Newpaper Advertising
Newspapers and Periodicals Misc
Newspapers Misc
Newspapers, 18th and 19th Centuries
Newspapers, 18th Century
Newspapers, Anniversaries
Newspapers, General Strike (PDF 562kb)
Newspapers, Historical General
Newspapers, Imperial and Colonial
Newspapers, Irish
Newspapers, London
Newspapers, Manx, Scottish, Welsh
Newspapers, Provinicial
Newspapers, Second World War, Misc
Newspapers, The Times
Newspapers, USA and Foreign
Pseudo-Historical Periodicals
Special Numbers, Ceremonial and Commemorative
Times, The
Political, Religious, Social and Economic History
This is one of the largest and most varied sections of the collection and the least catalogued and digitised. Digital projects have focussed on the Political Cartoons (available through the John Johnson online catalogue and VADS (Visual Arts and Humanities Data Service) and Crime, Murders and Executions (available through ProQuest).
Acts
Agriculture (PDF 138kb)
Allotments and Smallholdings
Americana (PDF 23kb)
Anarchism
Banking (PDF 34kb)
Beginnings of Reform
Bible Societies
Bills
Boy Scouts (PDF 222kb)
Canada and New Zealand Companies (PDF 9kb)
Catastrophes and Phenomena (PDF 11kb)
Ceremonial (PDF 125kb)
City Guilds and Companies
Civic
Civic and Municipal Pamphlets
Clubs (PDF 5kb)
Co-operation (PDF 69kb)
Commerce (PDF 247kb)
Communist Papers (PDF 88kb)
Creeds, Parties, Policies
Crime (PDF 76kb)
Crimean War (PDF 383kb)
Currency (PDF 23kb)
Daylight Saving (PDF 6kb)
Dialect
East India Company
Elections
Emigration (PDF 35kb)
Empire and Colonies (PDF 43kb)
Employment (PDF 24kb)
Enclosures
Esperanto
Farmer and Stockbreeder (PDF 60kb)
Forms of Service (PDF 47kb)
Free Trade and Protection (PDF 6kb)
French Wars and Revolutions
Funerary (PDF 11kb)
Gladstone (PDF 52kb)
Great War (PDF 175kb)
Horticulture (PDF 188kb)
Indentures
Insurance (PDF 118kb)
Ireland (PDF 38kb)
Land and the People (PDF 45kb)
Land Tax and Valuation
Land Tax and Valuation (Booklets)
Law (PDF 8kb)
Leaders of Free Thought
Leaders of Reform
Legal
Martin, William
Masonic
Memorials (PDF 76kb)
Memory Systems (PDF 7kb)
Military (PDF 45kb)
Military and Naval Pageants
Monarchy and the House of Lords
Murders and Executions Broadsides (PDF 44kb)
Nationalization
Naval (PDF 18kb)
Nelson
Oxford Group
Oxford Societies, City and County
Parliamentary Lists (PDF 9kb)
Peace
Phoenix Assurance Co.
Phrenology and Cheirology (PDF 8kb)
Pietistic (PDF 10kb)
Police and Public Security
Political
Poor Law
Prayer Book Warrants
Proclamations
Public Services (PDF 45kb)
Reform Bills
Religion
Religious and Ecclesiastical (PDF 10kb)
Religious Souvenirs (PDF 5kb)
Russian Bonds
Salvation Army
Sex, Population, Eugenics (PDF 9kb)
Silviculture
Skits (PDF 14kb)
Slavery (PDF 9kb)
Social Day, The
Socialist Pamphlets
Societies General
Societies, Charitable (PDF 355kb)
Societies, Health, Vegetarian
Societies, Missionary (PDF 219kb)
South African War (PDF 91kb)
South Sea Company
Spanish Civil War
Speeches (PDF 25kb)
Stocks and Shares (PDF 6kb)
Street Propaganda
Sunday Observance
Supernatural (PDF 10kb)
Taxation (PDF 7kb)
Temperance (PDF 34kb)
Texts (PDF 5kb)
Tichborne Case (PDF 150kb)
Tracts
Votes of the House of Commons
War (General)
War Emergency Workers' National Committee (PDF 5kb)
Wellington, Duke of (PDF 9kb)
Wesleyan Circuits
Women's Suffrage
YMCA
Youth Hostels (PDF 48kb)
British sources
- Conservative Party Archive (Bodleian)
- National Archives
- Modern Records Centre
- Imperial War Museum
- Pamphlets at the London School of Economics
- Empire (British Library Learning Texts in Context)
- Commonwealth and Latin American Archives Project (Institute for Commonwealth Studies and Institute for the Study of the Americas
- People's History Museum
- British Cartoon Archive
- British Museum e.g. 27505 Satirical prints, 6334 trade cards
- London Metropolitan Archives (former Guildhall Library collection)
American sources
- Slavery (Samuel J May anti-slavery collection, Cornell University)
- American political history (Cornell University)
- American Campaign Literature (UCLA)
Postal History and Philately
- First Air Mails
- Postal Collection
- Postcard Collecting (Deltiology)
- Postcards
- Postmark Collection
- Postage Stamps
Printing Processes
As Printer to the University, John Johnson aimed to document printing as well as social history through his collection. There are several sections devoted to printers and printing techniques. However, except for a very few manuscript items, the entire collection represents the products of printing presses, of engraving, of letterpress, lithography and a multitude of 20th century photomechanical processes. Through the online catalogue, we have indexed printers, lithographers, engravers, etc. and have identified the printing processes of most items.
Barnes, Halfhide and Standish
Binders and Binding (PDF 253kb)
Binding Fragments
Bindings
Calico Printing
Colour Printing (PDF 56kb)
Decorative Printer, The
Early Printed Pages
Embossed Bindings
Embossing (PDF 7kb)
Engravers (PDF 288kb)
Engraving: Halfhide and Standish (PDF 4kb)
Engraving on Glass
Fourdrinier Papers (PDF 86kb)
Graphic Processes (PDF 50kb)
Layout (PDF 28kb)
Leighton Bros. (PDF 9kb)
Linotype (PDF 43kb)
Lithography (PDF 53kb)
Mechanical Composition
Mezzotints
Monotype (PDF 6kb)
Paper
Paper Making (PDF 50kb)
Paper Mills (PDF 22kb)
Paper Specimens
Patents for Inventions (PDF 5kb)
Patterned Papers
Printed on the Ice (PDF 308kb)
Printers (PDF 23kb)
Printers' Ink (PDF 85kb)
Printers' Machinery (PDF 49kb)
Printers' Marks (PDF 109kb)
Printing Patents (PDF 5kb)
Printing Processes
Raithby and Lawrence
Stereotyping (PDF 5kb)
Stipple
Type Facsimile Society (PDF 42kb)
Type, Engraving Music
Typefounders and Typefounding (PDF 30kb)
Typography
Watermarks (PDF 4kb)
Whittaker (John)
Prints
Many of the prints in the John Johnson Collection have been catalogued and digitised. Political Cartoons and Trades and Professions and some Fashion prints (notably cartoons) are available through the John Johnson online catalogue and through VADS, where they are cross-searchable with other collections.
The Trade in Prints and Scraps (popular prints), the Trade in Cheap Mezzotints and Lithographs, Scraps, Puzzle Pictures and Window Pictures and Transparencies have all been catalogued and digitised. The images are available through the ProQuest resource: The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera.
There are many prints scattered throughout the collection. Genre terms used to describe these in our online catalogue are: Allegorical prints, Art reproductions, Bird's eye view prints, Book illustrations, Botanical illustrations, Caricatures, Cartoons (commentary), Cityscape paintings, Cityscape prints, Commemorative prints, Costume prints, Drawings, Fashions plates, Fashion prints, Frontispieces, Genre drawings, Genre paintings, Genre photographs, Genre prints, Graphite drawings, Group portraits, Hidden image works, Hold-to-light works, Humorous pictures, Illustrations, Landscape drawings, Landscape photographs, Landscape prints, Marine paintings, Marine prints, Medical illustrations, Metamorphic pictures, Micrographical portraits, Military prints, Myrioramas, Mythological prints, Naval prints, Panoramas, Panoramic views, Performing arts prints, Periodical illustrations, Photographic prints, Pictorial alphabets, Pictorial lettersheets, Picture puzzles, Political Cartoons, Portrait drawings, Portrait paintings, Portrait photographs, Portrait prints, Puns (visual works), Rebuses, Religious pictures, Religious prints, Satires (visual works), Scientific illustrations, Scraps, Scrapbooks, Seascape prints, Sheet music covers, Silhouettes, Sporting prints, Still life drawings, Still life paintings, Still life prints, Technical Illustrations,Tinsel prints, Toy theatre cutouts, Viewbooks, Views, Vignettes, Volvelles, Vues d'optique, Wallpapers, and Writing blanks.
Aquatints (PDF 39kb)
Arundel Society (PDF 75kb)
Bartolozzi (PDF 28kb)
Caricatures
Chiaroscuro (PDF 25kb)
Chromocollotypes
Chromolithographs (PDF 40kb)
Chromoxylography (H Knofler)
Coney (John), Engraved Proofs of Cathedrals (PDF 25kb)
De Bry (PDF 239kb)
Durer (PDF 63kb)
Engravings (PDF 183kb)
Fashion (PDF 104kb)
Japanese Prints
Lithographs
Oil Views
Oleographs
Oxford Caricatures (PDF 105kb)
Oxford Sketches (PDF 92kb)
Photogravure
Political Cartoons
Printed on the Ice (PDF 59kb)
Printsellers' Catalogues
Puzzle Pictures (PDF 29kb)
Shells
Steel Engraving (Victorian) (PDF 25kb)
Trade in Cheap Lithographs (PDF 25kb)
Trade in Cheap Mezzotints (PDF 7kb)
Trade in Prints and Scraps (PDF 189kb)
Trades and Professions
Window Pictures and Transparencies (PDF 27kb)
Woodcuts
Woodcuts of the Sixties
Woodcuts, Hand Coloured
Woodcuts, Specimens
Woodcuts, Tintoretto
Private Presses
This section is properly Private Presses and Publishers. It includes a range of ephemera from early printers as well as the output of private presses, many of whose printers Johnson knew personally. Private printing is an area in which Johnson (who mostly collected retrospectively) collected contemporary material. Books have been removed from these boxes to the Johnson Books sequence, so that they are searchable through the University’s online library catalogue, SOLO. A list of these books will be posted here.
Many presses contain very little material, housed in slim folders. Others, such as Curwen and the Pear Tree Press, are large sections, taking up several boxes.
Indexes
View the Private Presses 'A' index (PDF)
Ackermann
Acorn Press
Alcuin Press
Allen, L C Press
Allenholme Press
American Presses
Anacker Press
Anvil Press
Aquila Press
Arber and Grosart Reprints
Architectural Press
Archaisms, Misc
Arden Press
Argonaut Press
Aries Press
Ashendene Press
Ashlar Press
Asperne Press
Asphodel Press
Astolat Press
View the Private Presses 'B' index (PDF)
Ballantyne Press
Barnicott and Pearce
Baskerville (John)
Batsford
Baylis (Ebenezer)
Baynard Press
Beaconsfield Press
Beaumont Press
Beaver
Beissert Press
Bell (John)
Bensley and Bulmer
Birmingham Arts and Crafts
Birmingham Guild
Black (A and C)
Blackamore Press
Blackie and Sons
Blades, East and Blades
Blakeney (E H)
Boar's Head Press
Bodoni Press
Bohemian Press
Boydell (J )
Bradley (Will)
Bremer Press
British Publishers Various
Britton (J)
Broadwater Press
Brooks Press
Bulmer (William)
Burgess of Ramsgate
Burns and Oates
Cambridge University Press
Cameron and Co.
Caprivard Press
Caradoc Press
Casanova Press
Cassell and Co.
Catnach (James)
Caxton Press (New Zealand)
Cayme Press
Centaur Press
Central School of Arts and Crafts
Charnley (Emerson), Newcastle
Chelsea Publishing Co.
Chiswick Press
Chubb (Ralph N)
Cleverdon, Douglas
Cloanthus Press
Cloister Press
Club of Odde Volumes
Cobden-Sanderson (Richard)
Collingwood (S)
Compagnie Typographique
Constable (T and A)
Cooke (Charles)
Corvinus Press
Country Life
Covici Press
Cowell (WS)
Cranach Press
Cresset Press
Crosby (B)
Cuala / Dun Emer Press
Cundee (J)
Cupid Press
Curwen Press
Cygnet Press
D
View the Private Presses 'D' index (PDF)
Daniel Press
Dartington Hall
Davies (Peter)
De La More
Dent
Devana Press
Devonian
Didot
Dixey (H G)
Dolman (Ireland)
Dolphin Press
Donaldson, Alexander
Douglas, David
Dove, John
Doves Press
Doxey
Dropmore
Dryad
Dutch Presses
Dwiggins (WA)
E
View the Private Presses 'E' index (PDF)
Edinburgh Printing
Egerton Press
Egoist Press
Elston Press
English Transitional
Enschede Haarlem
Eragny Press
Essex House Press
F
View the Private Presses 'F' index (PDF)
Faculty of Arts
Fanfare
Fanfrolico Press
Favil Press
First Edition Club
Fisher (Henry)
Fleuron Press
Florence Press
Fortune Press
Foulis (Robert & Andrew)
Fountain Press
Franklin (Benjamin)
French Modern
Fulcrum
Fuller, Temple of Fancy
G
View the Private Presses 'G' index (PDF).
Gardner of Paisley
Gayton Studio
Gentry (Helen)
German Presses
German Typography
Gill (Eric)
Golden Cockerell Press
Golden Hours Press
Gosnell (S)
Gossop
Goudy Press
Grabhorn
Grayhound Press
Gregynog Press
Gresham Press
Grey Bow Press
Grolier Club
Grolier Society of Great Britain
Gruyon Press
Guthrie (James)
H
View the Private Presses 'H' index (PDF)
Halcyon Press
Hand and Flower Press
Harbor Press
Harding and Wright
Harris (J)
Haslewood Press
Haworth Press
Hawthorn House
Hawthornden
Haycock Press
Hazard of Bath
Heal (& Son)
Henderson and Spalding
Hermes Press
Hesperides Press
High House Press
Hill of Bristol
Hills (Henry)
Hilton (Robert)
Hodgson's and Co.
Hogarth Press
Holinski, Alfred
Hookham Press
Howe Press
Hulbert (Charles)
I
View the Private Presses 'I' index (PDF)
Ibbett (W)
Institute of Graphic Arts
Institute of Graphic Arts (America)
J
View the Private Presses 'J' index (PDF)
James Press
Jones (G W)
Jones and Co
K
View the Private Presses 'K' index (PDF)
Kelmscott Press
King and Queen Press
King's Stone Press
Knight (Charles)
Knight (J) and Lacey
Koch (Rudolph)
Kynoch Press
L
View the Private Presses 'L' index (PDF)
Laboratory Press (Pittsburg)
Lakeside Press
Landauer (Bella C)
Lane (John)
Lardner (Dr)
Latin Press
Leadenhall Press
Lee Priory Press
Limbird (J)
Limited Editions Club
Lumsden (J)
Humphries (Percy Lund)
M
View the Private Presses 'M' index (PDF)
Maclin (Thomas)
Major (John)
Mandrake Press
Manor House Press
Marchbanks Press
Malborough College
Mathews (Elkin)
McCreery (J)
McLean (Thomas and Hector)
McMurtie
McPharlin (Paul)
Medici Society
Meredith Press
Merrymount Press
Mill House Press
Miller (William)
Minerva Press
Modern Continental General (Presses)
Molyneux Press
Moor Platt Press
Morison (Stanley)
Morland Press
Mosher (Thomas Bird)
Moxon Press
Moyes (James)
N
View the Private Presses 'N' index (PDF)
Nash (John Henry)
Newberry
Nichols (J B)
Nicholson of Totteridge
Nimmo
Nonesuch Press
North Country Printing
Norwich Printing
Nussey
Nutt (David)
O–Q
View the Private Presses 'O–Q' index (PDF)
Officina Bodoni see Bodoni
Orpheus Press
Overbrook Press
Oxford University Press
Paladin Press
Pauper (Peter)
Pear Tree Press
Pegasus Press
Pelican Press
Perpetua Press
Phaidon
Phillips (Sir Richard)
Pichon (Leon)
Pickering (William)
Plantin
Poetry Bookshop
Pony Barn Press
Printing Schools
Priory Press
Private Presses Misc.
Proctor (Robert)
Provincial Presses 1875-1895
Provincial Schools (Printing)
Prowett (Septimus)
Pushkin Press
Pynson
Quaritch
R
View the Private Presses 'R' index (PDF)
Rampant Lions
Random House
Raven Press
Relfe (Lupton)
Riccardi
Ritchie (Ward)
Rodker (J)
Rodwell and Martin
Rogers (Bruce)
Rollins (Carl P)
Rota (Bertram)
Roycrofters (USA)
Rudge (William Edwin)
Samurai Press
Schmoller Press
Scholartis Press
Scott (Walter) Co.
Seizin Press
Seven Acre Press
Shakespeare Head Press
Sharpe (John)
Shenval Press
Sherwood, Neely and Jones
Simons (Anna)
Smeeton (George)
Smith (Percy)
Smithers (Leonard)
Society of Printers
Soncino Press
Speight and Walpole
Spottiswoode Ballantyne
St. Dominics Press
Stanhope Press
Stanton Press
Stead (W T)
Stourton Press
Strangeways Press
Straus (Ralph)
Strawberry Hill Press
Studio, The
Sylvan Press
Symonds (HD)
Talbot Press
Talboys Press
Tallone (Albert)
Tarr (John)
Taylor (J)
Tintern Press
Totem Press
Totham Press
Trovillion Press
Vale Press
Van Voorst
Vase Press
Vincent Press
Vine Press
Walker (Emery)
Walpole (Printing Office)
Ward (Marcus) and Co.
Westminster Press
White Owl Press
Whittock (Nathaniel)
Wolpe (Berthold)
Woodstock Press
Woolly Whale
Zeitlin Press
Sports
- Boxing
- Field Sports
- Football Pools
- Horse Racing
- Olympic Games
- Sports (PDF, 73.1kb)
- Walking Races (PDF 73kb)
Topographical
Few sections of the collection are devoted to a geographical area or city, but several are sub-sorted by place, for example: Booktrade; Educational; Noteheadings; Seaside, Lakes and Spas; Theatre, Provincial. The collection is rich in provincial as well as London ephemera and is a good resource for local history. Places are indexed both by venue (where applicable) and town (e.g. Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne and Newcastle upon Tyne, Theatre Royal). Please note that work remains to be done on standardising the names of towns in the place index.
Transport
The first digital project of the Bodleian Library, the Toyota Project (now archived), focussed on the Motor Car section of the collection. All motoring ephemera was catalogued at a page level. It also includes 1,000 sample images from the other Transport sections, detailed indexes of which were created at the same time.
Motoring in Britain, 1895–1940 by Julie Anne Lambert and Nick Baldwin was published by Toyota City in association with the Bodleian Library, with text in both English and Japanese. The Bodleian Library’s copy is at M99.L00055. There is also a copy in the Japanese Library. In 2010, there was a small display of London Transport posters.
Air
Bicycles (PDF 124kb)
Bridges and Tunnels
Canals (PDF 8kb)
Carriages for Hire (PDF 34kb)
Carts, Coaches and Conveyances
Coach Building (PDF 34kb)
Coaches (PDF 142kb)
Harbours, Docks and Piers
London Transport Board (PDF 26kb)
Motor Cars
Omnibuses (PDF 123kb)
Ports and Harbours
Public Highway
Railways
Rivers
Shipping
Shipping Lines
Shipping, Cunard Line
Toll Gates and Tickets
Tram Tickets
Tramways
