More images

Facsimile images of more than 13,700 items have been added to the John Johnson Collection, bringing the total number of scanned items to 62,421 (a total of 167,356 images), including more than 19,700 pieces of theatrical and non-theatrical ephemera from the Nineteenth-Century Entertainment category and more than 9,500 items from the Booktrade category. Over 10,900 Popular Prints are now available in facsimile form, along with more than 20,700 items from Advertising and over 1,400 from Crimes, Murders and Executions.

Introductory essays

Also new are the publication of a series of 14 specially commissioned essays that respond to a diverse selection of items from the John Johnson Collection. They include e.g.

• Slavery in Visual Advertising by Troy Bickham
• Royal Vauxhall Gardens by Rob Banham
• Theatre Programmes for Gilbert & Sullivan Comic Operas by Catherine Haill
• Imagining the Orient by Marina Warner

and more.

Oxford University users have access to the John Johnson Collection for Printed Ephemera via OxLIP+.