Letterpress broadside with a hand-colored etched and engraved header illustrating the use of a fire-engine at the site of the Cornhill fire, which occurred on 25 March 1748
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Caption title from letterpress text. and Annotations on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 1 of 12 titles bound together., With a title-page portrait., Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴., and With a final advertisement leaf.
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Printed by J. Macock for the Company of Stationers
Mustapha's adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part 1
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A satire on Pitt., Signed: Mustapha., With a small woodcut of Pitt in profile in third line of title, between the words 'Pittander' and 'Omnipotent'., Imprint continues: ... where may be had, the pasquinades of Pittachio in two parts, Dundassio, &c. Also just published, the second edition of The shaver's new sermon for the fast day., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Riebau, No. 439, Strand; and sold by all newsmen ...
Mustapha's adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part 2
Description:
A satire on Pitt., Signed at bottom of text: Mustapha., Parts 1 and 3 were "Printed for G. Riebau" and this part is homogeneous with these., With a small woodcut of Pitt in profile in third line of title, between the words 'Pittander' and 'Omnipotent'., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Riebau, No. 439, Strand; and sold by all newsmen ...
Mustapha’s adoration of the sublime Sultan Pittander omnipotent. Part 3
Description:
A satire on Pitt., Signed: Mustapha., With a small woodcut of Pitt in profile in third line of title, between the words 'Pittander' and 'Omnipotent'., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Pittachio in two parts. Part I and II of Pittander omnipotent. Harlequin impeacher, &c. Also the second edition of The shaver's New sermon., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Riebau, No. 439, Strand; and may be had of all newsmen ...
Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for an act for the discharge of insolvent debtors
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Caption title., Docket title: Reasons humbly offer'd to both houses of Parliament for an act for the discharge of insolvent debtors. From the prison of Ludgate., The specific reference to Prison of Ludgate suggests a date of 1715; reforms were put before the House of Commons in a Bill in May/June 1715., Not in ESTC., and With stitching holes to gutter margin. For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Signed: Enemy to the shop tax., In support of Lord John Townshend against Lord Samuel Hood in the Westminster election of 1788., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Townshend, John, 1757-1833., and Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Taxation, Public opinion, and Retail trade
Caption title., A slip song., First line of the first of seven stanzas: How blithe was I each morn, to see., Date based on other items published by Garratt's., In this edition the woodcut shows a pastoral scene with a couple standing on the left beneath a tree and two dogs on the right., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
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Printed and sold at Garratt's Printing-Office in Lynn, Norfolk
Caption title., "Price six pence.", "The above poem, elegantly printed in quarto, may be had at the same place, with a humorous frontispiece. Second edition. Price two shillings."--Below imprint., Not in ESTC., and Signed in ink on verso: D. Erskine Esq. For further information, consult library staff.
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Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Signatures: A²., Referring to the Sacheverell trial., Drop-head title., Imprint from colophon., Price from colophon: Price 2d., and Disbound; remnants of binding to gutter. For further information, consult library staff.