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
Description:
Caption title from letterpress text. and Annotations on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., With an etching below the title and above the letterpress text, signed "G. Cruikshank fect." showing John Bellingham in the act of assassinating Spencer Perceval. Plate mark: 58 x 104 mm., and Mounted to: 46 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Published by John Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill, facing the Old Bailey and Maurice Printer, Howford-buildings, Fenchurch-Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812., Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Bellingham, John, 1770-1812
Subject (Topic):
Assassination, Prime ministers, Politics and government, and Assassinations
A layout using letterpress showing the interior of Westminster Hall, layed out for the trial of William Lord Byron for killing William Chaworth in a duel; trial was held in April 1765
Description:
Caption title. and Publication date based on date of the trial.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England). and Byron, William Byron, Baron, 1722-1798
A chapbook of Cries, with hand-colored illustrations: The frontispiece shows a street scene in front of John Harris's shop with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background where a fashionable lady and a boy talk to a street-vendor selling goods from his basket. The shop window shows Harris sold medicines as well being a lending library and bookseller. The chapbook includes images and cries of a Georgian street vendors --- chimney sweeps, milkmaids, fish-women, watercress sellers, men making and selling mats and brooms or repairing chairs, sellers of cat and dog meat, swords and standards, nosegays and florists, sellers of live geese and chickens, foods like Banbury cakes or hot gingerbread, potatoes, strawberries, fresh fish, eels, lobsters and flounder, rabbits, matches, and a newspapers, and ending with two watchmen in front of the Watch-House. On the back wrapper is an advertisement for seven other works, "new editions of the following celebrated little works" each priced 1s, 6d.
Alternative Title:
Cries of London and Description of the cries of London
Description:
Title from printed title page., Published with yellow wrappers, the upper cover printed with the title and imprint surrounded by a single fillet border. On the verso: publisher's list of new editions., and With an inscription on flyleaf. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Topic):
Cries, Cities and towns, Occupations, Peddlers, Children's poetry, Picture books for children, and Street vendors
Dates of publication are based on the time frame of Alken's other works., "Price ten shillings.", Cover title., and Spine title: Specimens of driving near London -- H. Alken. Bound in blue morocco with red silk linings and with stamp on inside front cover: Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1901. 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
A slip song with the refrain "Derry down, down, &c" addressed to constituents of Middlesex to vote for independent radical candidates George Byng and Sir Francis Burdett in the upcoming local election of 1802
Alternative Title:
Independent electors of Middlesex
Description:
Caption title., In verse., First lines: Rouse, rouse, freedom's sons! all your efforts unite, Make choise of tried men, Independedt, upright; ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Abraham, Clement's Lane
Subject (Name):
Byng, George, 1764-1847., Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844., and Great Britain. Parliament
Title from caption above woodcut. Text begins with a quote from Heb 12.6: "When I am scourged with affliction's rod ...", Each word or short phrase of the Apostles’ Creed is paired with two biblical quotations paraphrasing it., Text in two columns, divided by a single rule; the title and illustration span both columns., Mounted on leaf 3. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Verse begins: "Batchelors of e'ery station,", Above first line: Part 1., In five columns undivided by rules; title and woodcut above the first two columns., Another printing of the edition recorded in ESTC T200945 (with no full stop after "lady" in the title), and N70792; that they are of the same setting is evidenced by damaged letters and other typographical indicia., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 9. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4, Aldermary Churchyard
Subject (Topic):
Women, Conduct of life, Heiresses, Lawyers, and Bachelors