
[Middle Hill Press; Thomas Phillipps] A collection of seventeen pamphlets, tracts, leaflets, and broadsides printed at Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill Press.. Many anti-Catholic.
Most items show signs of being disbound, mainly good condition1. Thomas Phillipps, Letter [heading] To the Editor of the Cheltenham Free Press and Gloucestershire Herald, associating Reform with the Re-establishment of Roman Catholics, one page, 12 x 19cms.2. [Verse] Ebenezer Higgins, Complaint of the Parish Clerk against Ritualism, one page, 26 x 9cm3. [Verse] The Spider Monk and the Maiden Fly, one page, 10 x 16.5cm.4. Ex Vita Ducis Valentino | Magnifico Viro [?] , 8pp., 11 x 17cms5. The Conspirators Schemes, Hospitals, Homes, Convents, [8]pp., 11 x 17cm6. The Christian Observer on the Position and Progress of Popery, and the Peril of the Times, [8]pp., 11x 17cm.7. [Verse] A New Inscription for Farthinghoe Church, one page, 10 x 17cm.8. Letter of Pope Innocent the XI, to James, Duke of York, 25 July 1682, 8pp., pp.1-4 separated from pp.5-8.9. What is done in Nunneries, one page, 14.5 x 21cms.10. Churchwardens empowered to Remove Superfluous Ornaments, one page, 21 x 16cms.11. The Black Box of Roome [sic] opened, formerly Printed in the Yeare, 1641, 15pp., 17 x 11cms. Gatherings separated. From whence are revealed, the Damnable Bloody Plots, Practise, and behaviour of Jesuits, Priests, Papists [?].12. Untitled, Handbill/Letter taking the content of The Eighth Letter of Gabriel d'Emilianne. A secular priest of Italy (partly entitled On the Corruption of the Italian Priests [?]; present; Pamphlet, [38]pp, Cheltenham imprint, 1865) as an opportunity to express extreme views about Catholics (A Protestant signs the Letter, One page, 11 x 18cms.13. De Convivio 50 Meretricum cum duce Valentino, one page, 10 x 17cms. In the Bibliotheca Lindesiana dated 1860 with a question mark, and ascribed to Cesare Borgia14. The Declaration of a Lady [concerning Confession], 4pp., bifolium, 17x10cm.15. [Verse] On a Puseyite Parson [Broadway: J. Rogers [for the Middle Hill Press], 1863, 2pp., 10 x 16.5cm. Note: 1cm at left has been folded over to allow the sheet to be bound into a book, but now disbound and loose.16. Romanism in the British Army, minor foxing, 4pp., bifolium, 11 x 17cms.17. A Short and True Account of the Several Advances The Church of England hath made towards Rome: on a model of the grounds upon which the Papists for these hundred years have built their hope and expectations that England would ere long return to Popery By Dr Du Moulin [Ipswich; S.H. Cowell for the Middle Hill Press], Unbound. Originally published in London, 1680. 24 pages of lithographic reproduction from handwritten manuscript. Press. In original plain paper wrappers which are lightly browned. An example of anastatic printing.

