A collection of twenty engraved and letterpress British inn bills completed in manuscript in various hands from regions throughout England and Wales, dating between circa 1780 and 1841. Many are printed with menus listing food and drinks as well as services, providing insight into what travellers at the end of the Georgian era were offered in any given region in this period; they are also early examples of the growing tourism trade. Beside tea, coffee, milk, soda water, lemonade, cider (cyder), and a wide range of spirits, other options for speciality drinks include: negus, punch, Geneva, perry, and malt liquors. Many of the various services relate to the care and maintenance of horses and carriages; besides blacksmithing, farrier and saddling services, many of the inns offered hay and corn, rush lights, etc. Also on offer were "servant's eating and ale", beds with extra charges for "fires in a bed chamber", and washing; other services listed included "Chaise hire", servants, providers were sometimes available. Other common services and goods included writing materials, postage, tobacco, and, of course, meals with various foods like fruit listed separately. The printed invoices and menus include some with engraved designs or woodcuts that incorporate a representation of a local attraction or motifs indicative of the trade. Several of the bills also include the imprint of the provincial printer. The majority have manuscript annotations and Two invoices from Welsh business are produced by "Watton, Printer, Shrewsbury Chronicle" for Bedd Gelert Hotel, Carnarvonshire A. Prichard and Harod Arms Hotel, Devil's Bridge, a village and community in Ceredigion, Wales, both of which are illustrated on the fronts and backs, with the same image on the back: The Iron Suspension Bridge, completed and opened on Monday, Januaray 30th, 1826, over the Menai Strait from Carnarvonshire into Anglesey. The fronts include the advertisements for the individual business but also include other natural wonders of the area: Cataracts and Aber Glaslyb Bridge, the Salmon Leap and the Pass in Snowden
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Title from dealer's catalog., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Place of publication derived from language of title., Date of publication supplied by curator., In margin upper left: Pinakothek., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber surgeons.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Physicians, Pain, Wounds & injuries, and Medical equipment & supplies
Title from item., Place of publication derived from language of title., Date of publication supplied by curator., In margin upper left: Pinakothek., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber surgeons.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Physicians, Pain, Wounds & injuries, and Medical equipment & supplies
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Charite Krankenhaus; Hospitals, Germany.
Title from item., Date supplied by printer., Verse below image: You see Physician, vat a ninny,/ Me cure you gratish -- for de guinea., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Verse below image: Now ladies, for a slice of cake, / I'll cut your nails, and corns that ach., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Podiatrists, Medical fees, Surgeons, and Physicians
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., George Carroll was a vendor of lottery tickets at No. 7, Cornhill, and No. 26, Oxford Street, This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Bolus, Dr.; Lottery Puffs.
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No.7, Cornhill, and No.26, Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Lottery winners, Physicians, Laborers, and Money
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick
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Surgery, Medicine, Rural, Pain, Knives, Kilts, and Wounds & injuries
Title from item., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., Copy after John Collier (Timothy Bobbin)., Copy of illustration in Human Passions Delineated, 1773., Trimmed within plate except lower margin., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alcohol.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Bottles, Thirst, and Corkscrews