J. Shove, stationer, at the Mitre, opposite Furnivals-Inn, Holborn ... [graphic]

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Title: J. Shove, stationer, at the Mitre, opposite Furnivals-Inn, Holborn ... [graphic]
Creator: Cole, W., active 1760-1780, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1757]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: J. Shove
Description: Title from item.
Title continues: Makes & Sells all sorts of accompt books for merchants, tradesmen & others; likewise all sorts of fine writing paper, pens, quills, ink, and inkpowder; wax wafers, letter cases, pocket books, copy and cyphering books, ink horns, slates, message cards and papers, playing cards, all sorts of paper for grocers, shopkeepers &c., bonds, stamps, writts, parchment, and all other stationary wares; likewise writings fairly engross'd or copied, and by permissionof the patentee, the new invented paper hangings, on copper plates, which for beauty strength and duration of colours, far excell any other sort whatsoever with the greatest variety of all other sorts of paper-hangings, wholesale & retail. NB Bibles & Common Prayers, etc.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
On leaf 115 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Provenance: Collected by P. (or T.) Legge of St. James' Market, with his notes occasionally on the versos of the cards. Acquired by Thomas Babb for the Yale Library from Dawson's; November 1962.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.6 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Advertisements
Trade cards (advertising)
Ephemera
Engravings England London 1757
Material: engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: text and still image
Subjects: England > London > 1757

Access: Public
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