Title from item., Title continues: Sells lappet heads, brussels, macklin, blond & English lace, plain sprig'd and strip'd muslins, &c., ready made caps, handkerchiefs & ruffles, marsailles quilted caps & stomachers, childe bed linnen of all sorts, satten baskets, satten & dimity robes, blankets, quilted bed gowns & waistcoats & c., velvets, flowerd gauze & great choice of figured allamodes, french trimings, gauze handkerchiefs & all sorts of curious flowers, fans & fan mounts, beaver leghorn, shaving & new fashion'd horse hair & other [patts], sable, ermin & french muffs & tippets, feathers, gloves, necklaces, earrings & c., french & English capuchins, cloth cloaks, velvets gazue & silk hoods, pillareens, newmarket, night gowns, & other caps, bonnets, bags, muffatees, black & colourd laces, french combs with all sorts of fringes & ribbons, quilted coats, strip'd & flower'd dimity, upper & under coats, bath coatings, hoops with great choice of other goods., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 98 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of buckles, spurs, buttons, seals, tea spoons, tongs & strainers, &c. in the neatest and newest manner at the most reasonable rates. Also ready money for old silver & silver lace., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 31 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Caption title below woodcut., In verse., Text in two columns. First line: About five hundred years ago, there lived (at least folks tell us so) one Wanki Fongo ..., A comic folk song about the wedding of Wanki Fongo Chi Chou Chu, Chief of the Yankee Doodles., Imperfect; printing flaw with loss of bottom two lines of text in left-hand column and most of imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials, London
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,67.230, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "No. 32" engraved at top of image; "Jewels set in [the] most elegant taste" engraved within banner below numbering., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
Simmons and Kirkby
Subject (Name):
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
"Admission ticket to the coronation of King George IV, Westminster Hall, Pass Ticket, 19 July 1821; decorative roundel within wreath of roses, thistles and shamrocks; embossed above and below, with blindstamp of Lord Great Chamberlain's Office."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Coronation pass ticket Westminster Hall
Description:
Title from item., Ticket for the coronation of George IV., Wood engraving, printed in red and blue, with embossing., An example of Whiting and Branston's compound plate printing, in the blue circular rose wreath; surrounding center printed in red. With blind embossed border incorporating the seal of the Lord Great Chamberlain's Office, signed Dobbs., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to 11.3 x 11.8 cm, resulting in loss of most of the embossed border., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.9 cm., and Mounted opposite page 180 in volume 4 part 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
On Tuesday next a grand spectacle will be exhibited by the managers ...
Description:
Caption title., Dated in lower left: Oct. 26, 1812., A mock theater advertisement satirizing the controversial election in Weymouth when Prince Ernest Augustus was accused of influencing the election result in favour of the Tories., First lines: In the course of this farce, will be presented to the public, a splended [sic] procession in the order following: Britannia veiled, mourning her lost freedom ..., and With contemporary manuscript notes on the blank verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
G. Kay, printer, adjoining the Guildhall, St. Edmund-Street, Weymouth
Caption title., Date based on publisher T. Evans's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 66., In one column, with a woodcut above the title and another beneath the final stanza., A slip song., In verse., First line of the first stanza, with the heading "Recitative": Low, inward, murmers agitate the earth ..., First line of the second stanza, with the heading "Song": No more the glowing lava gleams ..., and For further information, consult library staff.