June [blank] 1757. As the Act of Parliament for an additional duty on news-papers will take place the 5th of next month ...
Description:
Title transcribed from item., Text at bottom: I am, [blank], your most obliged, humble servant, [blank]., and Form completed in ink on 25 June 1757, with a 10/- per quarter cost for the Evening Post and 5/- for the Weekly Journal noted in lower left; annotated "Rec'd for June 27 -1757" in upper left; signed "Jos. Baker" in lower right. For further information, consult library staff.
A trade card illustrated with craftsmen engaged in the activities of their trade as carpenters and architects as well as furnishing funerals
Alternative Title:
Benjamin and John Osgood carpenters, at the Rising Sun ...
Description:
Title from item., Date suggested by dealer., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on secondary sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Benjamin & John Osgood
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Architects, Carpenters, Undertakers and undertaking, Carpentry, Equipment, Saws, and Tools
Title from item., Date inferred from printmaker's street address; Garnett Terry occupied various numbers on Paternoster Row from 1770 to 1796. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., Text within banners surrounding central image, clockwise from upper right: Toupees; Wholesale & Retail; Cushion's; Braids; Perfumery; Wigs., and For further information, consult library staff.
A broadside illustrated with engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at top of sheet followed by 29 lines of letterpress text mourning the death of the Charlotte on November 6th, 1817
Description:
Title from beginning of letterpress text., Portraits at top have the engraved captions "Princess Charlotte" and "Prince Leopold.", Biographical details immediately above lower border., "Price one shilling."--Below lower border., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
published not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
All-engraved card printed with a black mourning board, with an image of her home Claremont below the title and below, nine lines that provide biographical details and an anecdote a snuff box that she had commissioned before her death, a gift for her husband Prince Leopold. A poem of nine lines, intended to be inscribed on the lid of the snuff box, is engraved below
Alternative Title:
Late residence of our much beloved and truly lamented Lady, the Princess Charlotte of Wales ...
Description:
Title from texted engraved above image., First line of verse: To Claremonts terrac'd heights, and Esher's Groves ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865., and Claremont House (Surrey, England),
Facing Almack's. EO table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver and Facing Almack's. Even Odd table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver
Description:
Title from item., Engraved text framed by a decorative border., Printed trade card advertising gambling at an EO table., Questionable date based on James Graham's tenure in the building., and For further information, consult library staff.
Trade card for the Dawbarn family grocery warehouse, situated in Aldermanbury, London. It shows a man wearing typical Chinese dress, sitting on boxes on the banks of a river. Behind him looms a large pagoda, and to his right a box, an urn, and a basket overflowing with goods
Description:
Title from item., Date entry in Kent's original London directory, 1816 edition., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Dawbarn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Grocers, Ethnic stereotypes, Pagodas, Rivers, and Ships
Title from item., P. Barnfield was a printer based in Southampton., Broadside printed on silk; text within mourning and decorative borders, with additional decorative borders within text. Words for the "Quartetto" and "Chorus" printed in separate boxes at bottom., "Princess Charlotte born Jan. 7, 1796, married May 2, 1816, and died Nov. 6, 1817.", and Imperfect: with loss to much of the left and right margins and slight loss of text (1 character); laid on a card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
P. Barnfield, printer
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817