John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera for Historians: The catalogues

Proof of yellow back cover for Darkest before Dawn

(C) John Johnson Collection: Colour Printing 8 (59)

The John Johnson Collection online catalogue

The Johnson online catalogue (not searchable through SOLO) contains all the records for catalogued items except those in Bodleian Ballads and the Toyota project.  There are currently c. 118,000 records in the Johnson online catalogue.

Johnson records appear in two forms:

• Display record (default). This often shows little information but has the advantage of showing several records per screen. From here you can select records to view
• Bibliographic record. This shows the whole record in tagged format.  To decode the tags, use the Johnson allegro format, which lets you into the secrets of our cataloguing system

The John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera (ProQuest)

For the following five sections you should use the ProQuest project, which provides images and full-text searching with hit-highlighting, maximising the usefulness to research:

• 19th century Entertainment (including playbills and programmes)

• Booktrade (including Prospectuses)

• Popular Prints

• Crime

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You can browse, search, download and zom images, etc.