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., Quarto handbill, illustrated with a coat of arms at top; all within a thick mourning border., "Westminster Cloth Mart, No. 7, Tothill Street. The impression being general, in all cases of public mourning, that an advance of price takes place on all articles for which the demand is increased, W.P. and E. Dudden inform the public, that they have lately purchased the entire stock of cloths and cassimeres of a reputed manufacturer in the west of England, who is retiring from that business; consisting of Second, Saxon, and Superlative black cloths and cassimeres; in consequence of which, their present stock of black goods ... instead of being advanced in price, will be offered considerably under the regular prices.", and Laid on to recent green card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Balne, printer, Gracechurch Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
A trade card advertising the services provided by the printseller and picture restorer Robert Hulton, whose shop was at on the corner of Pall Mall facing the Haymarket. A medley print with text in image on the left "Paintings, prints & Indian picktures [sic] carfully [sic] clean'd. mended and lined" and on the right "The following particulars made & sold very cheap by Rt. Hulton at the corner of Pallmall facing [the] Hay-markett, St. James's, London
Alternative Title:
Maps and prints sold and framed for parlors, staircases and closets at reasonable rates
Description:
Title from engraved text below image in two columns. Text continues in one column below: Carved and gilt frames, Ebony frames with gilt edges, black peartree frames with gilt edges for paintings & prints made after the newest faishions [sic]., Date from annotations on impression at the Lewis Walpole Library., and On verso is a manuscript bill from Robert Hulton to "Honble. Mr. Henson", dated October 1743. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Printed trade card., Text ends: Ladies wishing to be suited, are requested to make an early application at 7, Sackville Street, London., Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon was a maker of stays who was granted a patent in 1801., and For further information, consult library staff.
Crabb, T. (Thomas), active 1811-1815, author, publisher
Published / Created:
[1817?]
Call Number:
File 56 C47 817Cr
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of a mourning Britannia with Claremont, Charlotte’s home, and her funeral cortege, in the background. Twenty lines of verse are engraved at the bottom, signed "Crabb".
Description:
Title from item., All engraved., First line of verse beneath title: Hark, the herald's solemn sound ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by T. Crabb, 1 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Caption title., An advertisement in verse, with two columns of letterpress text beginning "With humblest deference we greet ..."; wood-engraved illustration at top depicting two ladies trying on wigs both facing a bust with "Princes' Royal" on plinth; an "Explanation" printed below in five lines; all within a typographic ornament border., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Printer prossibly W. Bailey located at 28 Great Tower Street, London. Cf. Heal, 99.22 & 23 advertise "At Bailey's Printing-Office... Shop-Bills, Hand-Bills, &c. of this Size and Paper, are printed for six Shillings a Thousand; and on an inferior Paper of this Size, for five Shillings a Thousand ...", Sheet trimmed with loss of most of the imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
"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