"Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including maps, portraits, satires, and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.32., Imprint engraved at top of plate; date of publication below image, lower right., Engraved above the image is a detailed list of wares for sale: All sorts of maps both foreign & English, fine French, Italian, Dutch, and English Prints; metzo-tinto heads, & historys black, or painted on glass; fitteth up Gent. halls, or large rooms [with] maps or prints on rolers, neatly puts into frames & glasses any of [the] above goods. NB. Where merchants, or sea commanders, country or town chapmen may be supplied wth. quanteties [sic] of the above goods, at the most reasonable rates, for exportation &c., and Date "1747" added in ink in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
Title from item., Handbill, on card stock., Verso blank., Printed card advertising a Regency private theatrical performance. A location of London is suggested by the identity of one of the performers. "Mrs. Weippart," Penelope Weippert, née Blane (-1846), wife of John Michael Weippart (1775-1831), harpist, was a professional actress connected with the Theatre Royal on the Strand., Signed at the end: Stage carpenter, Mr. Riordan., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Colman, George, 1762-1836.
Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), active 1814-1826
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1843]
Call Number:
File 66 793 Sa176
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Trade card of Thomas Frederick Salter, a milliner who ran several shops in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. The shopfront of his longest-standing premises at 47 Charing Cross is depicted at the bottom of the card, its windows full of hats in various styles, mostly men's hats. At the top of the card a depiction of the process of hat making, showing a team of men working on different elements of the manufacturing process
Alternative Title:
Hat making
Description:
Title from item., Above design in ruled border: Hat making., Date based on information in London merchant and post office directories., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With advertisement printed in letterpress on verso: The cheapest hat-warehouse in the world. Thomas Frederick Salter, with gratitude, offers his best thanks for the great and continual increase in business which he has experienced for several years ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T.F. Salter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Millinery, Stores & shops, Hat industry, Window displays, Workshops, and Hats
Caption title., Date inferred from manuscript note on verso., Printed advertisement, issued by Mary Noble, for her servant registry office in London. Noble was proprietor of the business between 1781 and 1785, when the City of London Land Tax records lists her as paying an annual rent and Land Tax for her premises., First line: The proprietor begs leave to inform those Ladies and Gentlemen who please to honour her with their commands ..., Signed: M. Noble., and For further information, consult library staff.
Medical and political record, a new Sunday paper. : Prospectus
Description:
Caption title., First line of text: The proprietors of The medical and political record respectfully beg leave to present to your notice a prospectus of their intended journal ... ., Prospectus for the publication of a professional medical and political journal., "The first number will appear on the 31st of December, 1820.", and Imperfect; upper right corner of sheet torn away with some loss of text. Manuscript notes on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by C. Kerwood, at the Medical and Political Record Office, John Street, Edgware Road ...
Title from item., Approximate date from internal evidence in the text., Advertising sheet, printed on both sides. The recto promotes two of John Bell's newspapers; the verso contains an advertisement for Price & Gosnell, Perfumers to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Text at bottom: Not admitted after half-past seven o'clock., and Annotated with the admission number "Two", the month and day "6th May", the final digit "6" in the year, and a signature. For further information, consult library staff.