BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 133: Title label on case shaved with place of publication wanting. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from slipcase., and Date inferred from reference to the re-establishment of a "legitimate monarchy" in France.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing Cards, Manners and customs, Costume, and Description and travel
Caption title., Printed on silk, within decorative borders. Engraved portrait of "Caroline Queen of England" beneath title., Broadside addressed from the Brass Founders and Braziers in support of Queen Caroline in October 1820, a month before the withdrawal of the Pains and Penalties Bill which aimed to annul Caroline’s marriage to George IV. Beneath the address is a response from Queen Caroline together with an ‘Order of the Procession’ in support of the queen., First lines: May it please Your Most Excellent Majesty. We, the operative Workers of Brass ... do most humbly and dutifully approach your Most Gracious Majesty, to offer our congratulations on your Majesty’s return ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Cowie, 58 Shoe Lane, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Brass Founders and Braziers.
A chapbook of Cries, with hand-colored illustrations: The frontispiece shows a street scene in front of John Harris's shop with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background where a fashionable lady and a boy talk to a street-vendor selling goods from his basket. The shop window shows Harris sold medicines as well being a lending library and bookseller. The chapbook includes images and cries of a Georgian street vendors --- chimney sweeps, milkmaids, fish-women, watercress sellers, men making and selling mats and brooms or repairing chairs, sellers of cat and dog meat, swords and standards, nosegays and florists, sellers of live geese and chickens, foods like Banbury cakes or hot gingerbread, potatoes, strawberries, fresh fish, eels, lobsters and flounder, rabbits, matches, and a newspapers, and ending with two watchmen in front of the Watch-House. On the back wrapper is an advertisement for seven other works, "new editions of the following celebrated little works" each priced 1s, 6d.
Alternative Title:
Cries of London and Description of the cries of London
Description:
Title from printed title page., Published with yellow wrappers, the upper cover printed with the title and imprint surrounded by a single fillet border. On the verso: publisher's list of new editions., and With an inscription on flyleaf. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Topic):
Cries, Cities and towns, Occupations, Peddlers, Children's poetry, Picture books for children, and Street vendors
The frontispiece is dated 1795 and is included in the Contents list., Frontispiece of William Hogarth, 2 leaves (letterpress title page and "A catalogue of the original works of William Hogarth contained in this volume"), and 110 engravings on 85 leaves., and Bound in full contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, rebacked. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, and No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Social life and customs, and Manners and customs
Title from first line of text, left column of engraved text., All engraved., A memorial to Princess Charlotte of Wales, the overall design being an image of her tomb, including a portrait of the princess and a depiction of her funeral procession directly below. Engraved text within the columns of the tomb provide the details of the procession along with Charlotte's biography. The central body of the tomb includes verse in memory of the tragically deceased princess: Thy hand, mysterious providence! Hath snatched the hope of millions hence. She, she is gone, whom joy and truth, And all the loveliness of youth ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Funeral processions