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- Creator:
- Bristol (England)
- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- File 64 784 B776++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., Dated at head: December, 28, 1784., The tickets could be had of William Ludlow, deputy clerk of the markets., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Bristol, and Bristol (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Commerce, History, and Ordinances
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bristol markets : In consequence of many frauds and impositions practised by sundry persons carrying provisions for the inhabitants, from the several markets within this city, the Mayor and Common Council have ordered, that such persons who shall hereafter be engaged in that way, shall bear certain tickets or marks whereby they may recommend themselves as trustworthy to their employers. ...
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- Creator:
- Bristol (England)
- Published / Created:
- [1726]
- Call Number:
- File 64 726 B776++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Whereas there is and hath been, time out of mind
- Description:
- Title from text at top of sheet., A decree of the Common Council of Bristol signed: Cann., The wood-engraved of the Bristol city arms is between "Civitas" and "Bristol.", and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Bristol, and Bristol (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Commerce, History, and Ordinances
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Civitas Bristol. Tempore Petri Day, ar' major, XIVmo die Decembris anno Regni dom' Georgii decimo tertio, annoq; domini, MDCCXXVI. Whereas there is and hath been, time out of mind, a good, antient, and laudable custom, had and used within the late borough, and now city of Bristol, and the liberties thereof, that no person (not being free of the said late borough, or now city) did or could keep any shop within the late borough, and now city of Bristol, or the liberties thereof ...
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- Published / Created:
- [1813]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B B619 1813
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham which principally takes the form of an apology announcing that the lead of the evening's entertainment, Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), is unable to attend due to ill health. The soprano's appearance had been much publicised by the local press, hence the need to justify her absence by publishing a communication by the attending doctor
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public ...
- Description:
- Caption title. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- [J]onathan Knott, printer, Birmingham
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England), Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723., and Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public, that he received on Wednesday morning an intimation from Mr. Elliston, that Madame Catalani laboured under an indisposition of so serious a nature, that it precluded her from performing here on Friday evening ... : This present Friday, October 29, 1813, will be presented the favourite comedy of A bold stroke for a wife ... to conclude with the favourite farce of The adopted child ...
- Published / Created:
- 1803.
- Call Number:
- Folio 63 803 C697
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- A bound volume of 32 Napoleonic broadsides, all good impressions, suggesting they were ordered directly from a publisher, possibly from James Asperne who is well represented in the collection and who perhaps made a trade in offering collections of the broadsides to contemporary collectors. Also well presented are broadsides by John Ginger
- Alternative Title:
- Patriotic handbills
- Description:
- In English., Title from dealer's description., Bound in 19th-century calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label with "Patriotic Handbills" and green morocco label with the number "II"; a sheet of writing paper bound in before the broadsides has a watermark "G. Langley 1856". With a manuscript note on the blank verso of the final broadside that states "Patriotic Handbills Packet II / I have duplicates of each bill.", With two copies of: Plain answers to plain questions, in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte., With two copies of: Britons triumph, or, Bonaparte's knell., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- multiple publishers
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Collection of Napoleonic War broadsides].