Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of buckles, spurs, buttons, seals, tea spoons, tongs & strainers, &c. in the neatest and newest manner at the most reasonable rates. Also ready money for old silver & silver lace., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 31 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Caption title below woodcut., In verse., Text in two columns. First line: About five hundred years ago, there lived (at least folks tell us so) one Wanki Fongo ..., A comic folk song about the wedding of Wanki Fongo Chi Chou Chu, Chief of the Yankee Doodles., Imperfect; printing flaw with loss of bottom two lines of text in left-hand column and most of imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials, London
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,67.230, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "No. 32" engraved at top of image; "Jewels set in [the] most elegant taste" engraved within banner below numbering., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
Simmons and Kirkby
Subject (Name):
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
On Tuesday next a grand spectacle will be exhibited by the managers ...
Description:
Caption title., Dated in lower left: Oct. 26, 1812., A mock theater advertisement satirizing the controversial election in Weymouth when Prince Ernest Augustus was accused of influencing the election result in favour of the Tories., First lines: In the course of this farce, will be presented to the public, a splended [sic] procession in the order following: Britannia veiled, mourning her lost freedom ..., and With contemporary manuscript notes on the blank verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
G. Kay, printer, adjoining the Guildhall, St. Edmund-Street, Weymouth
Caption title., Date based on publisher T. Evans's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 66., In one column, with a woodcut above the title and another beneath the final stanza., A slip song., In verse., First line of the first stanza, with the heading "Recitative": Low, inward, murmers agitate the earth ..., First line of the second stanza, with the heading "Song": No more the glowing lava gleams ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 150 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of fine box combs [the] teeth so curiously finely & artificially wrought that they enter the hairs with ease, without tearing or splitting them. Ivory combs, tortoise shell combs, horn combs, and black lead combs; likewise, all sorts of powder flasks, shot pouches, and all manner of horn ware. Wholesale and retail at reasonable rates., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 30 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.