Title from item., Date based on Richard Derby's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 148 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Date based on death date of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 149 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Publisher:
Alexander Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton
Subject (Name):
Eglinton, Alexander Montgomerie, Earl of, approximately 1660-1729.
Title from item., Date based on time period (1727-1746) when Francis Greville was known as Lord Brooke., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 147 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column., A slip song., In verse., First line: My song is of a little man ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great Saint Andrew Street, Seven Dials
A broadside on Christopher Bullock, a tiny but fat watch and clock-maker in Suffolk; with a woodcut showing a portrait of Bullock, holding a wig in his left hand, mopping his brow with the other; with letterpress title and text, including information on other people of Suffolk including another dwarf Miss B-t-h-c-r, and a table listing market days and distances from London of towns on the road to Yarmouth, and with one vertical segment of type ornaments. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
Description:
Caption title., Woodcut of the dwarf dated 1755. See Sheila O'Connell's 'Popular Print in England' (British Museum 1999, cat.4.41) where she shows that the portrait was lifted from an etching of Jacob Powell made a year or two earlier (see British Museum cat.4.40)., Woodcut signed lower left with a italic 'g'?, and Preserved in a modern mount. For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., In verse., A political satire of Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786), navy officer and politician, and his unfortunate campaign for the seat of Surrey in 1780. The broadside is augmented by the engraved illustration featuring Keppel, his ship HMS Formidable ablaze, and fourteen other figures, all in service of "Merit protected. Persecution repelled. Undue Influence defeated." The lengthy satirical poem was prompted by the 1780 election for the commons in Surrey. It references his previous courts-martial for his conduct during the Battle of Ushant, and comments on the state of the nation, war, and the economy., Engraving signed in lower left: Argus del. et sculp., Engraving with imprint below image: Publish'd as the Act directs, Novr. 25, 1780., Stockdale advertised the sheet in the General Advertiser, Nov. 27, 1780., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Title continues: ... which, being dissolv'd in the mouth (one at a time) ev'ry hour or ev'ry half hour as occasion requires, give relief to the most violent coughs, heart-burns or consumptions. The specifick pills, which are very efficacious in all rheumatic, scorbutic disorders, &c. Dr. Ratclyff's stom. purging elixir, which is a very good remedy in all disorders of the stomach and bowels, particularly the windy colic ... N.B. Cupping perform'd., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 1 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.