Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 18 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Date of publication based on other related works printed by Norris for the Sun Fire Office., Text on the recto continues with a list of locations, followed by blank spaces under a heading "Days of the month," presumably to be filled in with a specific work schedule., Text on the verso of the card begins "The hours of attendance are, from ...," which is followed by a listing of the shifts at each of four periods during the year : Candlemas to Lady Day, Lady-Day to Michaelmas, etc. A note at the bottom reads: Every man is to bring his fire-axe and to carry it on his rounds., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by W.P. Norris, No. 15, Broker-Row Moorsfileds
Title from item., Date of publication from annotated newspaper advertisement for the concert, which was scheduled for 23 May 1781; see Digital Bodleian catalogue, Shelfmark: Bodleian Library Concerts 2 (22m)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box., and With contemporary annotations in brown ink on recto: "W. Lee [?]" written in upper left corner, and "N. 89" written in upper right corner.
Title from item., Title continues: Sell Genoa & Dutch velvets, brocades, damasks, paduasoys, rasdemores, sattins, tabbys, armozeens, ducapes, sergedusoys, mantuas, strip'd & plain lustrings, sarsenets, persians, poplins, broglio's, strip'd & plain Irish stuffs, furniture & other stuff damasks, camblets, callimanco's &c. Norwich crapes for mourning, of particular good mixtures. Black & white bombazeens., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 36 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of figures in plaister [sic] of Paris, wholesale and retail. N.B. Figures carefully pack'd and sent to all parts by sea or land., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 57 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of figures in plaister [sic] of Paris, wholesale and retail. N.B. Figures carefully pack'd and sent to all parts by sea or land., Proof state, before man's head added in space above text and with woman's head at top of image etched in outline only., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 57 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 142 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
"Trade card of Fraser, scientific instrument maker, with portrait of the astronomer James Ferguson at top, bust, slightly to left, in oval with garland and ribbon, scientific instruments on pedestal below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fraser, optical and mathematical instrument maker at Fergusons Head ... and James Ferguson
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1930,1115.1., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
William Fraser
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776,
Subject (Topic):
Scientific apparatus and instruments industry and Scientific equipment