Signatures: A²., Referring to the Sacheverell trial., Drop-head title., Imprint from colophon., Price from colophon: Price 2d., and Disbound; remnants of binding to gutter. For further information, consult library staff.
Verse begins: "A good old man, no matter where,"., In two columns, separated by a column of type ornaments; the title and imprint span the columns at head and foot; there is a row of type ornaments abov the imprint; all within a border of type ornaments., Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 17., Description based on imperfect impression., Mounted on leaf 11. Copy trimmed with loss of imprint at the foot and "Cheap Repository" at the top., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, English, Christian life, Conduct of life, Families, Children, Fuelwood, and Older people
Title from item; alternative title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom of plate., and On leaf 128 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Caption title., Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s., First line: Miss Diana G---y is arrived at this meeting for the diversion of those gentlemen who are stong in hand ..., Not in ESTC., and Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
Two works in two separate hands, recording the orders and rules of a fictitious noble order created for ladies' amusement, presumably by someone well acquainted with the customs and using her knowledge to arrange a masque for the amusement of her circle of friends in the months leading to the coronation of George III, possibily at her home in Yorkshire. The first work entitled "The Order for the installation of one of the Ladies of the most noble Order of the Needle instituted in 1761" (pages 2-4) is followed by "The Rules of the most Noble Order of the Needle Instituted on July 25th 1761" (pages 4-8), both written in black ink
Description:
Miss Frankland remains unidentified but is likely a descendant of the family of Lady Elizabeth Russell Frankland (1666-1733), the granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell, and her husband Sir Thomas Frankland (1665-1726) of Thirkleby Park, North Yorkshire. Lady Frankland was the sister of John Russell (-1735), the stepfather of Mary Joanna Russell., Mary Joanna Cutts Revett Russell (1707-1764) was the daughter of Colonel Edmund Revett (-1709) and Joanna Thurlbarne Revett (-1764), the step-daughter of John Russell (-1735), and the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russell (1701-1754). The Russell family acquired Chequers, their family home in Buckinghamshire, through John Russell's 1715 marriage to Joanna Revett., In English., Titles from captions at the head of each of the two works., "By Miss F-nkl-d" on first page, upper right corner, suggests the author of the first manuscript, "The Order for the installation," as a member of the Frankland family., The second work is attributed to Mary Joanna Russell based on a manuscript also entitled "The rules of the most Noble Order of the Needle" in the British Library (Add MS 69390). The online record for that copy states that it was drawn up by Mrs. Russell for her daughter and nieces and their friends., One signature, sewn and unbound, with watermarked laid paper, horizontal chainlines; crowned watermark with lion rampant, countermark 'EH'. Pages with text are unnumbered; final 8 pages are blank., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic):
Coronation, Amateur theater, Masques, and Satire, English
Peele, J. W. (John Websdale), active 1822-1846, publisher
Published / Created:
[1824]
Call Number:
File 74 824 P374
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Broadside celebrating Fairlop Fair, held annually held on the first Friday in July. The broadside gives a short account of the origins of the fair, reproduces two songs sung by a Mr. Hemingway and a Mr. Lidard during the fair, and shows the festivities in an impressive woodcut which was printed from a woodblock fashioned from the celebrated Fairlop Oak. The Fairlop Oak was an impressive oak in the Hainault Forest near a lake at Fairlop Waters. In 1725 Daniel Day (d. 1767), a ship-builder, took some friends for a picnic there, repeating this for a number of summers until it gradually developed into a larger event, attended by ship, boat, and barge builders and their associated trades, though it was always held without a charter. By the early 19th century it was a well attended fair, known for its sometimes riotous behaviour. Day always made a point of arriving at the fair in a boat on wheels and this tradition continued. These impressive modes of transport, festooned with lights and sails, full of people in garish costumes making music and breaking into song were one of the features of the fair, and a well-known spectacle in the East End of London when they set off. By 1813 the Fairlop Oak had lost a great deal of its crown. The broadside here records its girth as being 36 feet. The tree was blown down in a gale in 1820, and its timber was used for a variety of celebratory furniture but also for the block from which the present woodcut was carved
Description:
Caption title., Date of publication from manuscript note on verso., Text includes ballads and songs in three columns, with a large woodcut of the Fairlop Oak and the surrounding fair above., With a ms. note on verso in ink and in an unidentified hand and dated: These bills circulated during the fairs. A mention is made of a charter in one of these songs, but such is not the case. Friday July 2, 1824., and For further information, consult library staff.
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
Caption title., In verse; without the music., On the omission of Queen Caroline's name from the liturgy., First line: Don't I look a man of sense ..., "Price One Penny."--Below imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption title., In case as issued., Text following imprint including publisher's announcements: Price 5s. On canvas, and in a neat case for the pocket 8s. On canvas and rollers, 10s. N.B. This chart will, in future, be published early every January, corrected up to the first of that month. ..., Dissected into 20 sections and mounted on linen, folding down into the original brown card slipcase. For further information, consult library staff., and Slipcase issued with chart is shelved separately as: 63 821 K54.
Publisher:
Printed for the Author by Shackell and Arrowsmith, Johnson's Court, Fleet-Street; and sold by G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane and J. Warren, Old Bond-Street; and by all other booksellers