Trade card of the engraver and copper plate printer Francis Arnold. At center is a detailed vignette of a printer's workshop with two workers, one engaged in the process of engraving a copper plate and the other at the printing press, with sheets drying above and bind sheets at his feet. Engraved text on either side of the vignette lists some of the products offered: "Invoice heads, address cards, arms, crests, &c. &c."; and "Manufacturers patterns engraved and printed."
Alternative Title:
Arnold, engraver and copper-plate printer ...
Description:
Title from item., Date from business directories listing Arnold at this Bath Street address from 1818., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Francis Arnold
Subject (Geographic):
England and Birmingham.
Subject (Topic):
Printing industry, Engravers, Workshops, and Printing presses
Title from item., Title continues: Is made and sold fine mead, at 15s. p. doz. 13 bottles, sent to any part or near town, without any expence to [the] buyer, a single bottle may be had at 13s.; bottles to be paid for or exchanged; at the same place is to be had the true virgin honey, now used by many in tea and punch as an excellent sweetener. Note, in any decline, consumptive cases, rheumatism, gravel, asthmas &c mead is greatly commended by many eminent physicians as most salutary, being as friendly as it is pleasant., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and On leaf 35 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Is sold all manner of wearing apparel for men and boys both new & second hand rich or plain; likewise gentlemen may chuse their patterns and have cloaths, liveries or mourning made in the modern taste at the most reasonable rates; all sorts of woollen drapery & Manchester goods in the piece, swords, pistols, sashes, gorgetts, horse-furniture &c, &c. N.B. The utmost value given for the above articles., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 53 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title from item., Title continues: Dutch velvets, black silks, sattins, sarsnetts, persians, poplins, Norwich crapes, bombazeens, dresdens, Venetian poplins, Irish stuffs, plaids, and all other sorts of stuffs, worsted damasks, cambletts, camblettes, calomancoes, velvet cloaks, short cloaks, capuchines, cardinals, night gowns, English & French hoops, childrens coats, stays & all sorts of quilted coats., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 19 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title from item., Title continues: Are sold all sorts of Turkey, Musketta, Wilton, Worcester & Scots carpets with upholstery and cabinet goods, wholesale & retail. Where merchants may be supplied with the above goods for exportation. NB, houshold goods apprais'd & funerals furnish'd., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 7 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
This playbill records a performance at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden of The constant couple by George Farquhar (1676-1707) on 22 May 1755 in which Margaret Woffington (1720?-1760) played the leading part of Sir Harry Wildair - one of the roles for which she was most celebrated. The part of Lady Lurewell was performed by Esther Hamilton (d. 1787). Other actors in the cast include Theophilus Cibber (1703-1758) and John Arthur (1708?-1772), actor and stage designer -- it is likely that he was responsible for devising the “machinery” mentioned in a note at the foot of the sheet: “as any obstruction in the movement of the machinery will greatly prejudice the performance of the entertainment, it is hoped no persons will be displeased as their being refus'd admittance behind the scene.”
Description:
A playbill. and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707., Woffington, Margaret, -1760., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Caption title., First line: In the county of Norfolk, lived one Mr. Matthew Grey, a gentleman about 39 years of age, possessed of a very good estate., Printed in three columns. With three woodcut illustrations at top: one depicting a man about to hurl an infant; one depicting a man and a woman hanging from nooses; and one depicting a woman burning an infant's corpse in a fireplace while being watched through a window. With "A copy of verses" printed in lower right: Give ear to this most horrid tale, this dismal tragedy, so foul and deep it cannot fail to moisten every eye. ..., Matthew Grey, apparently insane, decided his wife was unfaithful and that he was not the father of his three children. Enraged, he murdered his entire family. The gruesome sounds of the murders attracted the attention of his neighbors, who rushed to the scene and apprehended Grey. Susan Smith, a girl of 17, was pregnant with an unwanted child. Unable to abort the pregnancy, she murdered the baby shortly after it was born. Her crime was discovered when a neighbor saw her attempting to burn the baby's corpse in a fireplace., Printer's advertisement following imprint: -- Cards and handbills printed very neat and cheap., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England, Norfolk., and England.
Subject (Name):
Grey, Matthew, -approximately 1830. and Smith, Susan, -approximately 1830.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Infanticide, Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text and design from bottom and right edges., and On leaf 100 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.