"This engraving represents a circular building, with conical roof of tiles, shown in two sections, and partly in perspective. Within the building is a large wheel turned by a horse and giving motion to a considerable number of spindles, to which are attached disks; on each of the disks are several razors, which are thus set in action on the faces of the men who apply their cheeks to openings in the inner wall of the building. Exterior to this inner wall is a gallery where stand the men who are thus expeditiously shaved; their hats hang on pegs, each over the hole to which the owner has applied himself. In the gallery several men are finishing or preparing for their toilettes. The operation of dressing a wig is shown below the wheel, on our right, where many combs are placed on a drum which revolves like a water-wheel before a man's wig, placed on a block near it."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text following title: See the explanation., "Price 6d."--Bottom of plate, centered., For an earlier state published in 1745, see no. 2687 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, and English short title catalogue no. T42881., and With watermark of fleur-de-lis. Ms. note on verso in black in ink: Mr. Freeman, Arlington Street.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament Novr. [the] 2, 1749, and sold by J. Dubois at [the] Golden Head [the] corner of Burleigh Street near Exeter Chanc[...]
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Shaving, Razor blades, Machinery, and Wigs
Caption title., Advertisement for Eyre's mineral and purging waters; blank form at bottom for ms. receipt., and For further information, consult library staff.
At a meeting of the subscribers at large, held this day at Gyde’s Rooms ...
Description:
Caption title., Place of publication from printer's address., and Annotations on verso, trimmed on the left with loss of text. Irregular sheet, lower half of right edge trimmed. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from first line of text., Probably printed to accompany the 2nd edition of Trulser's Compendium of useful knowledge, containing a concise explanation of every thing a young man ought to know (London : Printed for the author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1788)., and For further information, consult library staff.
A broadside advertising a coach service from No. 2 Bridge Street off Ludgate Hill to persons who wish to travel fast in a post-chaise and who need a partner in order to hire the carriage. No name or business is specified, the author of this lengthy advertisement explains that such a utilitarian service needs no introduction
Description:
Caption title., First line: Whoever sollicits the patronage of the publick, should be careful to state his pretensions in convincing terms ..., Not in ESTC., and On verso, annotated in black ink in an unidentified hand, four names. For further information, consult library staff.
To the nobility, gentry, and curious in general, there is to be seen at a commodious apartment
Description:
At head of title: To the nobility, gentry, and curious in general, there is to be seen at a commodious apartment at the Red-Lyon and Three Pigeons, in Castle-Street, near the King's Mews, by one or more, without loss of tine, at one shilling each person, that wonderful phaenomenon [sic] of nature., Dropped head title., Possibly advertisement for Amelia Harlequin (Amelia Lewsam?)., Vignette with royal coat of arms of George II., Similar advertisement in the Lambeth Palace Library, suggests date of 175- (see ESTC T194884). Reference in Royal Society (Great Britain) Philosophical transactions, v. 55, p. 47 suggests a date around 1762., and For further information, consult library staff.