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- Creator:
- Packwood, George
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- File 66 788 P119
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., An advertisement in verse, with two columns of letterpress text beginning "With humblest deference we greet ..."; wood-engraved illustration at top depicting two ladies trying on wigs both facing a bust with "Princes' Royal" on plinth; an "Explanation" printed below in five lines; all within a typographic ornament border., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Printer prossibly W. Bailey located at 28 Great Tower Street, London. Cf. Heal, 99.22 & 23 advertise "At Bailey's Printing-Office... Shop-Bills, Hand-Bills, &c. of this Size and Paper, are printed for six Shillings a Thousand; and on an inferior Paper of this Size, for five Shillings a Thousand ...", Sheet trimmed with loss of most of the imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- W. Bailey, printer [...]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairdressing and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Packwood’s address, he's not lesser, a perfumer than hair-dresser
- Creator:
- Le Clerc, active 1738-1775, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1747.
- Call Number:
- File 66 747 G852
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- "Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including maps, portraits, satires, and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.32., Imprint engraved at top of plate; date of publication below image, lower right., Engraved above the image is a detailed list of wares for sale: All sorts of maps both foreign & English, fine French, Italian, Dutch, and English Prints; metzo-tinto heads, & historys black, or painted on glass; fitteth up Gent. halls, or large rooms [with] maps or prints on rolers, neatly puts into frames & glasses any of [the] above goods. NB. Where merchants, or sea commanders, country or town chapmen may be supplied wth. quanteties [sic] of the above goods, at the most reasonable rates, for exportation &c., and Date "1747" added in ink in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Prints, Maps, Clocks & watches, and Crowns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Peter Griffin, map & print-seller, at the Dial and Three Crowns, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet-Street; from the late Overtons [graphic]
14.
- Creator:
- Poor Robin
- Published / Created:
- 1687.
- Call Number:
- 2013 1188
- Image Count:
- 48
- Alternative Title:
- Poor Robin sixteen eighty-seven
- Description:
- BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 11 of 12 titles bound together., Part 2 has special t.p.: Poor Robin, 1687 : a prognostication ..., Advertisements: p. [7] and [48]., and Poor Robin = William Winstanley. Cf. ESTC.
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Company of Stationers
- Subject (Topic):
- Almanacs, English, Ephemerides, and Astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poor Robin 1687 : an almanack of the old and new fashion : wherein the reader may behold (scanning it over with a pair of understanding spectacles) many remarkable things worthy of his choicest observation : containing a two-fold kalendar, viz. the Julian, or English, and the roundheads, or fanaticks, with their several saints-days, and observations upon every month
15.
- Creator:
- Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), active 1814-1826
- Published / Created:
- [between 1793 and 1843]
- Call Number:
- File 66 793 Sa176
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Trade card of Thomas Frederick Salter, a milliner who ran several shops in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. The shopfront of his longest-standing premises at 47 Charing Cross is depicted at the bottom of the card, its windows full of hats in various styles, mostly men's hats. At the top of the card a depiction of the process of hat making, showing a team of men working on different elements of the manufacturing process
- Alternative Title:
- Hat making
- Description:
- Title from item., Above design in ruled border: Hat making., Date based on information in London merchant and post office directories., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With advertisement printed in letterpress on verso: The cheapest hat-warehouse in the world. Thomas Frederick Salter, with gratitude, offers his best thanks for the great and continual increase in business which he has experienced for several years ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- T.F. Salter
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Millinery, Stores & shops, Hat industry, Window displays, Workshops, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > T.F. Salter, hat maker, at the Gold Laced Hat and Fame, 47 Charing Cross, London military & naval hats / [graphic]
16.
- Creator:
- Noble, Mary, active 1781-1785
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1782]
- Call Number:
- File 66 782 C581
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., Date inferred from manuscript note on verso., Printed advertisement, issued by Mary Noble, for her servant registry office in London. Noble was proprietor of the business between 1781 and 1785, when the City of London Land Tax records lists her as paying an annual rent and Land Tax for her premises., First line: The proprietor begs leave to inform those Ladies and Gentlemen who please to honour her with their commands ..., Signed: M. Noble., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- M. Noble
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Employment agencies and Household employees
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The City-Office and Statute-Hall, for Hiring Servants, at No. 100, Fenchurch-Street, opposite the India-Warehouses
17.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1817 and 1820]
- Call Number:
- File 66 817 P831
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Title from item., Approximate date from internal evidence in the text., Advertising sheet, printed on both sides. The recto promotes two of John Bell's newspapers; the verso contains an advertisement for Price & Gosnell, Perfumers to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Bell, No. 104 Drury-Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and London (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Hair preparations, Selling, and Perfumes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The popular Sunday newspaper, Bell's weekly messenger, will be conducted with becoming spirit and attention ... : Another edition of the same paper, viz. - The Monday edition of Bell's weekly messenger, is published every Monday ...
- Creator:
- Day, William, 1797-1845, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1833]
- Call Number:
- 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of Walter Hancock's steam omnibus Enterprise (built for the London and Paddington Steam Carriage Company) which was used to began a regular service between London Wall and Paddington via Islington on 22 April 1833
- Description:
- Title from item. and Laid on sheet: 56 x 38 cm. With C.J. Grant's The old and new stagers, or, Steam speed against a mile an hour! (No. 129 in the series Political drama).
- Publisher:
- W. Day, Lith. to the King, 17 Gate St.
- Subject (Name):
- Hancock, Walter, 1799-1852.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The triumph of mechanics in 1832 [graphic].
19.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1825]
- Call Number:
- File 66 825 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Toplis and Sons, tobacco and snuff manufacturers ... and Wholesale & for exportation
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Toplis & Sons
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tobacco, Tobacco industry, Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Umbrellas, Barrels, and Sailing ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Toplis & Sons, tobacco and snuff manufacturers, No. 71, Shoreditch, London [graphic] : importers of Havannah and all other foreign cigars & snuffs, & manufacturers of all sorts of fancy tobacco's & snuffs
20.
- Creator:
- Clement, William, -1839, bookseller
- Published / Created:
- [between 1801 and 1810]
- Call Number:
- File 66 801 C626
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- William Clement, bookseller and stationer, No. 201 Strand, (opposite St. Clements Church)
- Description:
- Title from item., Date inferred from bookseller's listed street address. See British Book Trade Index online., Engraved trade card, illustrated with books and quills and ornamental garland., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- William Clement
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Booksellers and bookselling and Stationery trade
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Wm. Clement, bookseller & stationer, No. 201 Strand, (opposite St. Clements Church). : News papers served in town, and regularly sent to all parts of England postage free. Copper plate engraving and printing in the neatest manner, books elegantly bound and carefully packed for exportation