Case of the owners of the upper-levels, against the bill relating to the harbour or Rye
Description:
Dropped-head title., Verso blank., First line of text: The salt channel from White Kemp, and the Five Watering Sluices, to the point near Guldeford ..., Date on last line: 1st June 1786., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England., Kent (England), Romney Marsh (England : Marsh), England, and Kent.
Subject (Topic):
Sluices, Public works, and Channels (Hydraulic engineering)
A broadside on London Bridge and its partial destruction by fire on 11 April 1758, with an account on the history of bridges on the site and an engraving of the view of London and the River Thames, with the remains of London Bridge in the centre above; engraved title above and letterpress title and text in two columns below
Alternative Title:
Chronological and historical account from the first building a bridge across the River Thames from London to Southwark ...
Description:
Title from etched text above the design., Letterpress caption title below image and above the two columns of text: A chronological and historical account from the first building a bridge across the River Thames from London to Southwark, 'till the late conflagration of the temporary bridge, the 11th of April, 1758., Titled 'An exact View of London Bridge since the conflagration of the late temporary Bridge, 11th of April, 1758: with an historical account of ditto, sold by W. Herbert' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829., "Price one shilling plain. Colour'd eighteen pence.", Plate mark: 22 x 35 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of price statement from bottom edge., and Mounted to: 57 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by William Herbert, under the Piazzas, on the remains of London-Bridge
Subject (Geographic):
Thames River (England), England, London, London., and London (England)
At the door leading into a squalid room, a girl in a ragged shift asks her neighbor, "Please Mister Saveall, Father says will you lend him your bellis to blow our fire up, as he's broke our'n." He is also dressed in ragged, patched clothes and sits on an overturned, broken chair as he uses a bellows to fan the fire below a kettle in the fireplace. He turns back and says over his shoulder, "Tell your Father that I never makes a practice of lending my things out to any body, but if he likes to come here he may blow all day if he chooses."
Alternative Title:
Obliging neighbour!
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Caption title., In verse., Text within ornamental border., An ode to Queen Caroline, who died soon after the Coronation of her husband George IV, an event to which she was refused entry., First line: The fairest of flowers must shed all its blossom ..., "Price one penny."--Following imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed & published by B. Johnson, Hudson's-Court, 482, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of woollen drapery, & mens mercery goods, viz. superfine second livery & drab cloths, forrest cloths Bath coatings, German serges, marble cloths & lincys, rutteens & duffills, sergedenims & everlastings, thicksetts & fustains, Manchester velvets, hair & worsted shags, shalloons & rattenetts, paduas & mill'd serges, double & single allopeens, fine says, tamies & callimancos, sattins & corded padusoys, serge dusoys, princes stuff & prunellas, Turky burdetts & cherry derrys, fine dimothys, with sundry other drapery & mercery goods, at the lowest prices, for ready money., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 32 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools (Society)
Published / Created:
[1824]
Call Number:
File 646 824 P314+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An engraved admission ticket with the St. Paul's Cathedral in a rondel in the center flanked on the left with an figure of a boy in a niche with the words "Naked & ye clothed us" below and on the right a girl, also in a niche, with the words "Ignorance & ye instructed us" below. Above the rondel is engraved in frame: Date et dabitur vobis
Description:
Title from text surrounding central image of St. Paul's Cathedral., Engraved text above images: 1824 West door., "Designed, drawn & presented to the Society of Patrons by James Elmes, architect in College Hill, London. Steward in 1807.", First line of text: Admit one person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday the 10th of June, 1824 when a sermon will be preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of Exeter before His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, President ... [list of presidents and stewards]., With the engraved signatures of Thos. Greenaway and Chas. Stable above imprint statement., and For further information, consult library staff (object file: File 659 807 P544).
Publisher:
Society of Patrons and Norris & Son, sc. Moorfields
Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools (Society)
Published / Created:
[1821]
Call Number:
File 646 821 P314+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An engraved admission ticket with the St. Paul's Cathedral in a rondel in the center flanked on the left with an figure of a boy in a niche with the words "Naked & ye clothed us" below and on the right a girl, also in a niche, with the words "Ignorance & ye instructed us" below. Above the rondel is engraved in frame: Date et dabitur vobis
Description:
Title from text surrounding central image of St. Paul's Cathedral., Engraved text above images: 1821 West door., "Designed, drawn & presented to the Society of Patrons by James Elmes, architect in College Hill, London. Steward in 1807.", First line of text: Admit one person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday the 7th of June, 1821 when a sermon will be preached by the Hon. & Right Reverend Father in God, Henry Lord Bishop of Glocester, before ... [list of presidents and stewards]., With the engraved signatures of Thos. Greenaway and Chas. Stable above imprint statement., and For further information, consult library staff (object file: File 659 807 P544).
Publisher:
Society of Patrons and Norris & Son, sc. Moorfields
Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves
Description:
Caption title., All engraved., Illustration is signed: C.R. Ryley delin.; W. Skelton sculp., Beneath title are the names of six "Stewards", engraved on either side of a small image of a woman with the caption "When my father and my mother foresake me, the Lord taketh me up"., "Dinner to be on table at half past four o'clock precisely. No collection after dinner."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Charities, Charity, Orphans, Soldiers, and British
"Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the bottom corners; text below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
Description:
Title from engraved text below image., Paul Sandby, who lived above Robertson's shop and collaborated with him, was possibly involved in the production of the image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,56.23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text continues: ... colour boxes, the best black lead and hair pencils, indian ink, port-folios with or without leaves, ladies black tracing paper, and very fine transparent do. for etching, with copper plates prepared for do. etching needles &c. &c. &c. Visiting cards, engraved in the most elegant manner; great choice of paper hangings in the newest taste. NB: Sandby's works in aqua tinta, to be had complete, prints framed & glazed, and drawings neatly fitted up, all sorts of stationary wares., and Mounted on sheet with with notes from a previous owner about the card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Archibald Robertson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops