Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Home, John, 1722-1808. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778], and Date in ms.
Publisher:
publisher
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
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.
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., First line: "As numbers of people are led away with the idea (particularly the rich),"., "The following table of the comparison of the price of the necessaries of life, for a family consisting of a man, his wife, and five or six children, drawn by actual experience, from the periods above-mentioned ...", Not in ESTC., Mounted on leaf 70. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed for Citizen Shaw (shaver to the swineish multitude) at the blooming Tree of Liberty, No. 4 Cranbourn Alley, Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Poor, Working class, Cost and standard of living, and Food consumption
Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]., and Dated in ms.
At the Old Theatre by the Portsmouth and Plymouth Company
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]