"A trade token issued by the famed bookseller James Lackington (1746-1815), the same year he opened the Temple of the Muses, 'one of the wonders of London' (Oxford DNB); with reputedly a million books on display, it was at the time the biggest bookshop in the world. Tokens such as these were issued in many places in England in the late eighteenth century, when the government failed to mint enough copper coinage for the conduct of business. According to Oxford DNB, Lackington issued thousands of such tokens, which were only valid at his shop. All were struck by Lutwyche of Birmingham."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on reverse side of item, which surrounds image of an angel blowing a trumpet., Obverse side with a portrait of Lackington and the text: J. Lackington 1794., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Lackington, Allen and Co and Lutwyche
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Lackington, James, 1746-1815, and Lackington, Allen and Co.
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Though destroyed by the storm may her soul rest in peace
Description:
Title from text on obverse., With: A single sheet printed appeal for gifts of money in exhange for a pewter token., and For associated printed sheet, search by call number: 66 821 T627.
Obverse: In center, full-length portrait of Jeffery Dunstan facing right; legend inscription with Dunstan's name and title as Mayor of Garrat. Reverse: In center, six lines of inscription with T. Hall's address and date, the penulitimate line is much larger letters than the others and the legend inscription advertising Hall's taxidermy services
Alternative Title:
T. Hall, Citty Road near Finsbury Square, London, 1795
Description:
Title from text on obverse side of token., Text from reverse side: T. Hall, Citty Road near Finsbury Square, London, 1795. The first artist in Europe for preserving birds, beasts, &c., Edge: plain., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Thomas Hall
Subject (Name):
Hall, Thomas (Taxidermist), Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797., and Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797,
Various jettons and counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death. Stored in an 18th-century sharkskin-covered box. Formerly located in the Tribune [Cabinet] of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Various Jettons and Counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death., With Horace Walpole's 1792 circular book plate (Type 1) pasted to interior of box; later partial sale [?] label on exterior, loose mss 19th c. label “King James the First and his Family Engraved on Nine Silver Plates By Simon van De Paas from Horace Walpole's Collection,, and Also available as a digital reproduction.