An admission ticket to a performance on 30 November 1789 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Such private theatricals at country houses became increasingly popular during the eighteenth century, with plays starting in earnest at Blenheim in 1786 and becoming so successful that a greenhouse was converted into a proper theater
Alternative Title:
Fourth night. Blenheim. Monday, November 30, 1789, will be performed ...
Description:
Letterpress ticket on card, printed on recto only. and Traces of glue on verso, probably formerly mounted in an album. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Oxfordshire.
Subject (Name):
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795. and Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, and Amateur theater
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom of plate., On leaf 117 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and "Iovry Bookes" written in the blank space, in brown ink in a contemporary hand.
Title from first line of text., Playbill advertising a spectacular show of shadow theatre and mechanical representation of the Battle of the Nile., The Lewis Walpole Library: Blanks completed in manuscript for a performance in Bristol on Thursday evening July 21st at Mr. Walkers' gun[?]. Thursday evening appears as a pasted slip over "Wednesday"., and For further information, consult library staff.
A collection of twenty engraved and letterpress British inn bills completed in manuscript in various hands from regions throughout England and Wales, dating between circa 1780 and 1841. Many are printed with menus listing food and drinks as well as services, providing insight into what travellers at the end of the Georgian era were offered in any given region in this period; they are also early examples of the growing tourism trade. Beside tea, coffee, milk, soda water, lemonade, cider (cyder), and a wide range of spirits, other options for speciality drinks include: negus, punch, Geneva, perry, and malt liquors. Many of the various services relate to the care and maintenance of horses and carriages; besides blacksmithing, farrier and saddling services, many of the inns offered hay and corn, rush lights, etc. Also on offer were "servant's eating and ale", beds with extra charges for "fires in a bed chamber", and washing; other services listed included "Chaise hire", servants, providers were sometimes available. Other common services and goods included writing materials, postage, tobacco, and, of course, meals with various foods like fruit listed separately. The printed invoices and menus include some with engraved designs or woodcuts that incorporate a representation of a local attraction or motifs indicative of the trade. Several of the bills also include the imprint of the provincial printer. The majority have manuscript annotations and Two invoices from Welsh business are produced by "Watton, Printer, Shrewsbury Chronicle" for Bedd Gelert Hotel, Carnarvonshire A. Prichard and Harod Arms Hotel, Devil's Bridge, a village and community in Ceredigion, Wales, both of which are illustrated on the fronts and backs, with the same image on the back: The Iron Suspension Bridge, completed and opened on Monday, Januaray 30th, 1826, over the Menai Strait from Carnarvonshire into Anglesey. The fronts include the advertisements for the individual business but also include other natural wonders of the area: Cataracts and Aber Glaslyb Bridge, the Salmon Leap and the Pass in Snowden
Description:
Title from dealer's catalog., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
An illustrated manuscript leaf in an 18th-century hand. In the upper portion of the recto side is a large vignette of a man in traditional Jewish garb, seated at a table, weighing coins as they spill from two cornucopias, one to each side and held by a cherub whose faces are turned away; the table is covered with coins. The prose text below is captioned "Covetousness" and consists of seven lines beginning: "Every step that a man makes beyond a moderate & reasonable Provision, is taking so much from the worthiness of his own spirit. ..." This quote is taken from an popular 18th-century British courtesy book that appeared in many editions but was first published in 1715.: The Gentleman's Library, containing rules for conduct in all parts of life. The scribe writes using Gothic lettering in pen and brown ink and decorates the perimeter of the text and image with billowing flourishes. Printed above in a ribbon banner is a saying from Horace, "certum voto pete finem"--"set a definite limit to your desire." On the verso written in pencil by a contemporary hand : Mind the noblest, he the law of Kings The noble mind distinguishes perfection It aids & strengthens virtue where it meets her 'Tis not to be sported with
Description:
In English., Title from item., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice in literature, Antisemitism, Avarice, and Ethnic stereotypes