Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: As Tom and Polly went a straying ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column., A slip song., In verse., First line: It was on Easter Monday ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Jennings, 13, Water-lane, Fleet-street, London
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of guns & pistols in the newest & best fashion, at reasonable rates., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 68 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title continues: ... coats of armes, crests, cyphers, on stone, steel, or silver; shop bills, bills of parcels, compliment cards, and book plates, engraved & printed., and On leaf 2 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Caption title., First line: William Newitt aged ..., A crudely printed broadside with numerous typographical errors, the text in three columns., With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution: a crowd watching four men hang from the gallows., Includes a report on the executions of William Newitt (for stealing 30 sheep), Thomas Maynard (for forging a payment of £1,900), Stephen Sandford and Will Lesslie (for an extensive burglary); the men were hanged on 31 December 1829. The final paragraph reports the extraordinary story of a failed plot (led by Sandford) to blow up Newgate prison and effect an escape., and Laid down; dated "Thursday Dec. 31st 1829" in contemporary manuscript. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Bishop, printer, 14 Shorts Gardens, Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Thieves, Forgery, Trials (Robbery), Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
Title from item., Title continues: Make & sell all sorts of fine wrought or plain brass furniture of all kinds for desks & book cases, chest of drawers, beuroes, and all other cabinet work with all sorts of brass or iron locks for the same brass or iron locsk for doors, all sorts of fine wrought or plain brass branches, candlesticks, jerondoles, and chandeliers for churches or gentlemens halls, fine brass lanthorns of all sorts, glass branches or glass bell or globe, lamps of all sizes, brass curtain rod, rings & pulleys, cloak pin & watch hooks, brass & leather casters, sutes for coffins, brass coffins or chair nailes, implements of all kinds for hanging bells and all other sorts of brass or iron wares, that used by cabinet makers, upholsters, or joyners, wholesale and retail., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 83 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Caption title., The formation of the University of Rational Amusement was announced in the London Courant on March 16, 1780., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Debates and debating, Societies, etc, Conduct of life, and Marriage