Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Engraved broadside with six stanzas of verse, 2 staves of music for flute at the bottom of sheet, and an illustration above title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1720.
At the Old Theatre by the Portsmouth and Plymouth Company
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]
Caption title in letterpress below image., The illustration is by Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works. No. 180, v. 1, p. 202-204., First line of first recitative: Twas at the gates of Calais, Hogarth tells, where sad despair and famine always dwell ..., Date based on Tringham's location at Royal Exchange. The first recorded edition of Theodosius Forrest's cantata printed below, is 1759., Three columns of verses alternating Recitative and Air., and On page 145 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Printed for W. Tringham, under the North Piazza of the Royal Exchange, in Threadneedle-Street
Caption title., Date of imprint from date of trials., Account of the three trials, with one column of verse on the murder of John Oldcroft., In the text, the name of the murder victim is given as Charles Oldcroft, not John, as in the title., Verses begin : Oh! listen to a tale of woe, I now to you unfold., Wood engraving (8 x 14.2 cm.) : Hanging scene before prison walls, with spectators., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., First line: On Friday night 24th ult. a murder was committed at a place about 6 miles from the town of Watford, Herts. ..., Printed in four columns. With two large woodcuts beneath the title illustrating the murder and the discovery of the body. A third, smaller woodcut depicting the burial of the victim appears in the lower right, above a poem with the heading "A copy of verses": A horrid deed I will relate, but newly brought to light, a deed so foul and barbarous, you've seldom heard the like ..., The Radlett murder, also know as the Elstree murder. The victim was William Weare was murdered by John Thurtell, who owed him a gambling debt, and his accomplices Joseph Hunt and William Probert., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Ct., 7 Dials, London
Subject (Geographic):
England, Hertfordshire., and England.
Subject (Name):
Weare, William, -1823., Thurtell, John, 1794-1824., Hunt, Joseph, active 19th century., and Probert, William, -1825.
Caption title., A playbill., For further information, consult library staff., and Annotation on verso: "A great and overflowing audience from box pit and galleries /2 price at 5 to 9 tragedy over 5 past 10 and all concluded by a /4[?] feast eleven o'clock with Mr Roberts at Piazza Pit Room."
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.